Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad
Subtitle: The Geography of Resistance
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Dec 12, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780252079542
Description: This study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred.
Notes: Source title: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance