Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey - Brossura

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Rizzo, Dennis

 
9781596295421: Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey

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For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, free blacks, runaway slaves and even many Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of South Jersey towns. While Lawnside and others continue to thrive today, "fringe communities"? like Marshalltown and Timbuctoo now exist only in memory. In this discussion of these primarily African American communities, Dennis Rizzo validates their role in the preservation of tradition, definition of extended family and creation of a social bond between diverse peoples; together they formed parallel communities based on, but independent of, the larger towns and villages familiar to us all.

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9781540219176: Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey

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ISBN 10:  1540219178 ISBN 13:  9781540219176
Casa editrice: HISTORY PR, 2008
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