Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad

Name: Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad
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ISBN: 9781322567266

ISBN-10: 1322567263

ISBN-13: 9781322567266

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Authors: J. Blaine Hudson

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Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next two hundred years. As the number of fugitives rose, the Southern states pressed for harsher legislation that they thought would prevent escapes. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 criminalized any assistance, active or passive, to a runaway slave--yet it only encouraged the behavior it sought to prevent. Friends of the fugitive, whose previous assistance to runaways had been somewhat haphazard, increased their efforts at organization. By the onset of the Civil War in 1861, the Underground Railroad included members, defined stops, set escape routes and a…

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List price: $87.12
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 1/1/2006
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 318
Language: English

J. Blaine Hudson is a professor of Pan-African studies and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville. He is the author of Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland (2002) and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.