Places of the Underground Railroad: A Geographical Guide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313381461)

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.

Author: Tom Calarco, Cynthia Vogel, Kathryn Grover
ISBN-10: 0313381461
ISBN-13: 9780313381461
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2010
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.42lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2011 pg. 100
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 53