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The Underground Railroad. The Journey to Freedom.
Ann Malaspina
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Description for The Underground Railroad. The Journey to Freedom.
When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. This title shows how this secret system worked in the days. Num Pages: 152 pages, full-colour & black-&-white photographs, bibliographical sidebars, excerpts from primary. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBWJ; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 386.
When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave ... Read more
When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Broomall, United States
ISBN
9781604136944
SKU
V9781604136944
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About Ann Malaspina
Ann Malaspina began her career as a newspaper reporter in Boston, where she wrote about immigrant issues, tenant rights, and poverty. Those stories sparked her interest in people on the margins of society and their battle for recognition and equal rights. She is the author of The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements in the Chelsea House series Reform Movements in ... Read more
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