The Underground Railroad
Subtitle: First-Person Knarratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North
By: Charles L. Blockson.
Edition: BMOC
Publisher: Prentice-Hall Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Underground railroad; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
First sentence: Forty-five percent of Alabama’s population was in slavery, and it was potentially a more onerous form of slavery than in the upper South, because Alabama, alone with Mississippi, continued to enforce the penalty of “burning in the hand” for felonies not punishable by death.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 291-296. This copy is hand-signed, inscribed and date by author Charles L. Blockson.
Includes index.