People of the Underground Railroad
A Biographical Dictionary
Tom Calarco
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Description
The Underground Railroad was perhaps the best example in U.S. history of blacks and whites working together for the common good. People of the Underground Railroad is the largest in-depth collection of profiles of those individuals involved in the spiriting of black slaves to freedom in the northern states and Canada beginning around 1800 and lasting to the early Civil War years. One hundred entries introduce people who had a significant role in the rescuing, harboring, or conducting of the fugitives—from abolitionists, evangelical ministers, Quakers, philanthropists, lawyers, judges, physicians, journalists, educators, to novelists, feminists, and barbers—as well as notable runaways. The selections are geographically representational of the broad railroad network.There is renewed interest in the Underground Railroad, exemplified by the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati and energized scholarly inquiry. People of the Underground Railroad presents authoritative information gathered from the latest research and established sources, many of them from period publications. Designed for student research and general browsing, in-depth essay entries include further reading. Numerous sidebars complement the entries. A timeline, illustrations, and map help put the profiles into context.
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"… this inexpensive but authoritative guide provides high school, public and academic libraries with an affordable introduction to a historically important movement."
—Lawrence Looks at Books
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"Helpful cross-references demonstrate the connections among individuals involved with the Underground Railroad. Useful back matter includes entry lists arranged alphabetically, geographically, and by the role the individual played in the movement, and state and general indexes. This is not an essential purchase, but it will be valuable where the Underground Railroad is studied in detail."
—School Library Journal
About the Author
Tom Calarco
is an independent scholar specializing in the Underground Railroad. He is the author of
The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region
(2004) among other works.
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