Fifty Years in the Northwest

Fifty Years in the Northwest
Author: William Henry Carman Folsom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 868
Release: 1888
Genre: Minnesota
ISBN:

Chapters start with historical information about a county or places within the county followed by biographies of people from those localities.

Streets with a Story

Streets with a Story
Author: Eric A. Willats
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1987
Genre: Islington (London, England)
ISBN: 9780951187104

The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
Author: Wilbur Henry Siebert
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-09
Genre: Fugitive slaves
ISBN: 9781522792444

First published in 1898, this comprehensive history was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and a large number of other firsthand accounts. Together, they shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to runaway slaves, including the degree of formal organization within the movement, methods of procedure, geographical range, leadership roles, the effectiveness of Canadian settlements, and the attitudes of courts and communities toward former slaves.