Author:
Churchill, Robert H. author.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Imprint2020
Descriptionxiii, 256 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction: the cultural geography of violence along the Underground Railroad -- Part I. Origins to 1838 -- Refugees all: the origins of the Underground Railroad -- Part II. 1838-1850 -- Under siege: borderland activists confront the violence of mastery -- Bondage and dignity: accommodation and collision in the contested region -- Free soil: Prigg, Latimer, and open resistance in the Upper North -- Part III. 1850-1860 -- Law and degradation: lethal violence and beleaguered resistance in the borderland -- Above ground: open defiance and the limits of free soil -- The end of toleration: the collapse of the Fugitive Slave Act in the contested region -- Epilogue: cultures of violence, secession, and war -- Appendix. Fugutive slave rescues, 1794-1861.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story."
