The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A Comprehensive History

Interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and other firsthand accounts shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to fugitive slaves. 46 black-and-white illustrations. This pioneering work was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in 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 other firsthand accounts.

• | Author: Ian Frederick Finseth, Wilbur Henry Siebert
• | Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2006
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780486450391
• | ISBN-10: 0486450392