The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598846478)

Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons--white and black, men and women, from all walks of life--to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

The Underground Railroad provides the richest portrayal yet of the first large scale act of interracial collaboration in the United States, mapping out the complex network of routes and safe stations that made escape from slavery in the American South possible.

Kerry Walters' stirring account ranges from the earliest acts of slave resistance and the rise of the Abolitionist movement, to the establishment of clandestine "liberty lines" through the eastern and then-western regions of the Union and ultimately to Canada. Separating fact from legend, Walters draws extensively on first-person accounts of those who made the Railroad work, those who tried to stop it, and those who made the treacherous journey to freedom--including Eliza Harris and Josiah Henson, the real-life "Eliza" and "Uncle Tom" from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Author: Kerry Walters
ISBN-10: 1598846477
ISBN-13: 9781598846478
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2012
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 10.10h x 6.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2012 pg. 53
Library Journal 06/15/2012 pg. 98
School Library Journal 08/01/2012 pg. 67