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The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad - Softcover

Gara, Larry

 
9780813108643: The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813108640 ISBN 13: 9780813108643
Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

" The underground railroad—with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains—has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Larry Gara is professor emeritus of history at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio.

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The underground railroad - with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains - has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of the history of this institution, which Larry Gara carefully investigates in this important study. Gara show how pre-Civil War partisan propaganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to that legend, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escapes from slave states. They carried out their runs to the North, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return under the Fugitive Slave Law. Thus, The Liberty Line places fugitive slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom.

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Verlag
The University Press of Kentucky
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813108640
ISBN 13 
9780813108643
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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