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Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad - Softcover

 
9781625345929: Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1625345925 ISBN 13: 9781625345929
Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century, an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans.

With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston.

In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.

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TIMOTHY D. WALKER is professor of history at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

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Verlag
University of Massachusetts Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1625345925
ISBN 13 
9781625345929
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
231
Herausgeber
Walker Timothy D.
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