Let my people go : the story of the underground railroad and the growth of the abolition movement / by Henrietta Buckmaster.
Publication details: New York : Harper & Bros., 1941.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 398 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 326.973
- E450 .B89 1941
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London ed. has title: Out of the house of bondage.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.
I.: ... The underground railroad begins in the swamps -- 2.: White help is needed ; The Quakers ; To Pennsylvania the honor of the first "station" -- 3.: Garrison begins the second revolution ; Riots, burnings, terror ; Anti-slavery becomes a moral issue ; Lovejoy, the first martyr -- 4. Crusade of the conscience: Negro leaders ; Congress learns of abolitionists ; ... Politics -- 5.: The Mexican war brings converts ; Free soil party ; Second fugitive slave law -- 6.: The descent of the slave-catchers ; Vigilance committees ; Boston ; Sumner goes to Washington ; The riot at Christiana ; Harriet Tubman -- 7. Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Civil war begins in Kansas ; The republican party ; Dred Scott -- 8. Fire and sword: John Brown ; Slavery splits the democrats -- 9. ... Black parliaments ; 10,000 fugitives turn towards the West.
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