The Resource The liberty line : the legend of the underground railroad, Larry Gara
The liberty line : the legend of the underground railroad, Larry Gara
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The item The liberty line : the legend of the underground railroad, Larry Gara represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
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- The underground railroad - with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains - has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of the history of this institution, which Larry Gara carefully investigates in this important study. Gara show how pre-Civil War partisan propaganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret
- Organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to that legend, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escapes from slave states. They carried out their runs to the North, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return under the Fugitive Slave Law. Thus, The Liberty Line places fugitive slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages)
- Note
- Originally published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1961. With new pref
- Contents
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- 1. The Legendary Railroad
- 2. Slavery and Freedom
- 3. The Road to the North
- 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme
- 5. Friends of the Fugitive
- 6. The Fugitive Issue
- 7. The Roots of a Legend
- 8. Reminiscence and Romance
- Isbn
- 9780813143552
- Label
- The liberty line : the legend of the underground railroad
- Title
- The liberty line
- Title remainder
- the legend of the underground railroad
- Statement of responsibility
- Larry Gara
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- The underground railroad - with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains - has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of the history of this institution, which Larry Gara carefully investigates in this important study. Gara show how pre-Civil War partisan propaganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret
- Organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to that legend, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escapes from slave states. They carried out their runs to the North, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return under the Fugitive Slave Law. Thus, The Liberty Line places fugitive slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gara, Larry
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Underground Railroad
- Fugitive slaves
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- Fugitive slaves
- Underground Railroad
- United States
- Flucht
- Sklave
- USA
- Label
- The liberty line : the legend of the underground railroad, Larry Gara
- Note
- Originally published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1961. With new pref
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. The Legendary Railroad -- 2. Slavery and Freedom -- 3. The Road to the North -- 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme -- 5. Friends of the Fugitive -- 6. The Fugitive Issue -- 7. The Roots of a Legend -- 8. Reminiscence and Romance
- Control code
- ocn828424714
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813143552
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 22573/ctt2hgbbd
- b8fd135e-5b73-498a-aa96-b2303fdbea9d
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)828424714
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- The liberty line : the legend of the underground railroad, Larry Gara
- Note
- Originally published: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1961. With new pref
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. The Legendary Railroad -- 2. Slavery and Freedom -- 3. The Road to the North -- 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme -- 5. Friends of the Fugitive -- 6. The Fugitive Issue -- 7. The Roots of a Legend -- 8. Reminiscence and Romance
- Control code
- ocn828424714
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813143552
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt2hgbbd
- b8fd135e-5b73-498a-aa96-b2303fdbea9d
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)828424714
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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