The place I call home : how abolition and the underground railroad shaped the community of Northeastern Pennsylvania /
"The Place I Call Home brings together many voices to revive this forgotten history. From the past and present, black and white voices combine to awaken a very different understanding of "The Underground Railroad." Myths are challenged and misconceptions revised. Black Americans are r...
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Montrose, Pennsylvania :
The Center for Anti-Slavery Studies, Inc.,
©2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- 1. Real voices of the underground railroad
- travelers who found home in Northeastern Pennsylvania
- 2. Slavery and the underground railroad movement
- 3. Northeastern Pennsylvania as a destination for freedom
- 4. Communities and people of Northeastern Pennsylvania's underground railroad and abolition movement
- 5. Finding the underground railroad in your community
- a research guide for the novice
- Back matter.