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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. X_Library copy with lightly bumped tips. No text marks. Nice clean used book.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. pp. 422.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New. pp. 422.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. In English.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condizione: New. This up-to-date compilation details the most significant stops along the Underground Railroad.Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide presents an overview of the various sites that comprised this unique road to freedom, with entries chosen to represent all regions of the United States and Canada. Where most works on the Underground Railroad focus on the people involved, this unique guide explores the intricacies of travel that allowed the "conductors" to carry out the tasks entrusted to them. It presents an accurate picture of just where the Underground Railroad was and how it operated, including routes and itineraries and connections between the various Railroad locations. Through information about these locations, the book takes readers from the beginnings of organized aid to fugitive slaves during the period following the American Revolution up to the Civil War. It delineates the possible routes fugitive slaves may have taken by identifying the rivers, canals, and railroads that were sometimes used. And it shows that a network, though decentralized and variable over time and place, truly was established among Underground Railroad participants.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 422 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condizione: New. This up-to-date compilation details the most significant stops along the Underground Railroad.Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide presents an overview of the various sites that comprised this unique road to freedom, with entries chosen to represent all regions of the United States and Canada. Where most works on the Underground Railroad focus on the people involved, this unique guide explores the intricacies of travel that allowed the "conductors" to carry out the tasks entrusted to them. It presents an accurate picture of just where the Underground Railroad was and how it operated, including routes and itineraries and connections between the various Railroad locations. Through information about these locations, the book takes readers from the beginnings of organized aid to fugitive slaves during the period following the American Revolution up to the Civil War. It delineates the possible routes fugitive slaves may have taken by identifying the rivers, canals, and railroads that were sometimes used. And it shows that a network, though decentralized and variable over time and place, truly was established among Underground Railroad participants.…