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Many thousand gone : African Americans from slavery to freedom /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, �1993.Description: 151 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0394828739
  • 9780394828732
  • 0394928733 (lib. bdg.)
  • 9780394928739 (lib. bdg.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Many thousand gone.DDC classification:
  • 973.7/115 20
LOC classification:
  • E450 .H23 1993
Online resources:
Contents:
Slavery in America: Somersett -- Quaker protest -- A Prince -- A Vanished slave and his return -- A Kidnapped child -- Jenny Slew -- Running-aways: Elizabeth Freeman -- The Right of Chloe -- Advertisements -- The Gabriel Prosser uprising -- Josiah Henson, running-away and guide -- A Slave -- The Nat Turner Rebellion -- Some conductors on the Underground Railroad -- Eliza -- Isabella, Sojourner -- The Captain of the Pearl -- Solomon Northup -- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey -- The Brave conductor -- "All right, sir!" -- Exodus to freedom: Anthony Burns -- A Mother's despair -- A Slave from Missouri -- A Kentucky runaway -- Alexander Ross, down from Canada -- Jackson, of Alabama -- Wisdom -- An Unnamed fugitive -- Three fugitives -- Exodus -- A Proclamation -- Deliverance -- The Tide of freedom.
Summary: Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
JNF JNF Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Nonfiction J 326 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 34517000178452

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.

Slavery in America: Somersett -- Quaker protest -- A Prince -- A Vanished slave and his return -- A Kidnapped child -- Jenny Slew -- Running-aways: Elizabeth Freeman -- The Right of Chloe -- Advertisements -- The Gabriel Prosser uprising -- Josiah Henson, running-away and guide -- A Slave -- The Nat Turner Rebellion -- Some conductors on the Underground Railroad -- Eliza -- Isabella, Sojourner -- The Captain of the Pearl -- Solomon Northup -- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey -- The Brave conductor -- "All right, sir!" -- Exodus to freedom: Anthony Burns -- A Mother's despair -- A Slave from Missouri -- A Kentucky runaway -- Alexander Ross, down from Canada -- Jackson, of Alabama -- Wisdom -- An Unnamed fugitive -- Three fugitives -- Exodus -- A Proclamation -- Deliverance -- The Tide of freedom.

Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

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