Abandoned Tracks: The Underground Railroad in Washington County, Pennsylvania

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In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring’s book is a wealthy, in-depth attempt to separate fact from fiction in one local area, at the same time as also contributing to a scholarly discussion of the Underground Railroad by placing Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the national context.Just as the North used to be not consistent in its point of view at the Civil War and the slavery issue, the Underground Railroad had distinct regional variations. Washington County had a well-organized abolition movement, although its members helped a comparatively small selection of fugitive slaves escape, in large part as a result of the small nearby slave population in what used to be then western Virginia. Its origins as a slave county make it a fascinating case study of the transition from slavery to freedom and of the origins of black and white abolitionism. Abandoned Tracks lends much to the ongoing scholarly debate about the extent, scope, and nature of the Underground Railroad. This book is written both for scholars of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad and for an audience interested in local history.

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