Title: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad
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.
Subjects: Underground railroad, Fugitive slaves, united states, African americans, history, Antislavery movements, united states, Excavations (archaeology), Fugitive slaves, History, African Americans, Sources, Antislavery movements, Antiquities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
Places: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky