American Archaeology Uncovers the Underground Railroad

American Archaeology Uncovers the Underground Railroad
Author: Lois Miner Huey
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761444985

Introduces historical archaeology, discusses important archeological finds from along the Underground Railroad routes, and explains how archaeologists dig in the ground and examine artifacts in order to understand the past.

Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad

Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad
Author: Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252095898

This enlightening 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. This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
Author: Adrienne Shadd
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2009-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1770706828

"The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black history in Canada. They also give surprising and detailed information to enrich the understanding of people already passionate about this neglected aspect of our own past." - Lawrence Hill, Writer The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!, a richly illustrated book, examines the urban connection of the clandestine system of secret routes, safe houses and "conductors." Not only does it trace the story of the Underground Railroad itself and how people courageously made the trip north to Canada and freedom, but it also explores what happened to them after they arrived. And it does so using never-before-published information on the African-Canadian community of Toronto. Based entirely on new research carried out for the experiential theatre show "The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Freedom!" at the Royal Ontario Museum, this volume offers new insights into the rich heritage of the Black people who made Toronto their home before the Civil War. It portrays life in the city during the nineteenth century in considerable detail. This exciting new book will be of interest to readers young and old who want to learn more about this unexplored chapter in Toronto’s history.

South to Freedom

South to Freedom
Author: Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1541617770

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

I've Got a Home in Glory Land

I've Got a Home in Glory Land
Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780374531256

The Blackburns' improbable journey from bondage to freedom pulsates with the breath-catching urgency of a thriller, yet this remarkable story is true . . . An invaluable testament to resistance, resilience, and a once-denied but unalienable right to life and liberty.--Rene Graham, "The Boston Globe."

Forgotten Bones

Forgotten Bones
Author: Lois Miner Huey
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467733938

Details the archaeological discovery of thirteen skeletons in upstate New York that were identified as eighteenth century slaves from the Schuyler farm.