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Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance
Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
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| #1226111 in Books | 2013-12-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,.85 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Groundbreaking study|By Michael Kirkland|Doctor LaRoche's groundbreaking study dispels many of the myths and legends surrounding the Underground Railroad of the 19th century by documenting the role that free black communities, geographic landscape features, and Black churches played in the emancipation of escapees from the South. The painstaking research, analysis, and organiza||
"In this book Cheryl Janifer LaRoche provides a corrective to this gap in the history by taking a broader landscape approach to 'geographies of resistance,' and she also traces in understated terms but powerful examples the silencing of the same history."
This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred.
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