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The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A Comprehensive History (African American)

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First published in 1898, this comprehensive history used to be the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas within 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 lot of other firsthand accounts. Together, they shed much light at the origins of a system that provided aid to runaway slaves, including the degree of formal organization throughout the movement, methods of procedure, geographical range, leadership roles, the effectiveness of Canadian settlements, and the attitudes of courts and communities toward former slaves.
In his introduction to Professor Siebert’s book, historian Albert Bushnell Hart lauds the creator for having “rescued and put on record events which in a couple of years will have ceased to be within the memory of living men. [Siebert] has done for the history of slavery what the students of ballad and folk-lore have done for literature; he has collected perishing materials.”
Invaluable for its unbiased, literate remedy, this carefully researched study will probably be a very good resource for instructors and students of African-American history, and engrossing literature for readers interested within the plight of fugitive slaves within the pre-Civil War era.

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