Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780813109749
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; Civil war; c 1800 to c 1900; Women; U.S. History - Slavery Question And Abolitionism; Women In The U.S.; History; History - U.S.; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Slavery; United States - 19th Century; Women's Studies - History
First sentence: Shortly before five o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, September 28, 1844, Delia Ann Webster left her lodgings at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Glass, on West Second Street in Lexington, Kentucky, and stepped into a hackney coach that the Reverend Calvin Fairbank had rented from Parker Craig.