1984855050 
Book Underground Railroad Records, The : Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom / William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Publication year: 2019
Format: Book
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 1984855050 9781984855053 :
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True stories of the Underground Railroad from the meticulous records of abolitionist and Underground Railroad Conductor William Still. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides the introduction. William Still's meticulously recorded collection of narratives of escape--unlike traditional autobiographical slave narratives--chronicles a wide variety of stories, laying the tracks of the Underground Railroad through correspondences, legal documents, transcribed speech, reward advertisements, and biographical sketches. Together they form an unprecedented and essential archive chronicling the efforts for freedom of escaped slaves. The Underground Rail Road Records offers some of the best evidence we have of this extraordinarily covert resistance network, and narrates a series of chapters that, at their creative determination seem almost magical. The stories bear witness to the intense desire for freedom--and the powerful agency of the enslaved to acquire it. Their stories are moving and remarkable--like t
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304 pages ; 21 cm
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