Record #:

41246

Author(s):

Israel, Adrienne M.

Abstract:

The author challenges the portrayal of the Underground Railroad created by popular culture, asserting it is incomplete. What Israel adds to the knowledge canon of the Underground Railroad includes contributions made by free blacks, Quakers, and Southerners; lesser-known purposes for the Railroad; its actual success rate; the number of fugitives who escaped without aid.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 95 Issue 1, January 2018, p1-28 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Underground Railroad; Underground Railroad--Quakers; Underground Railroad--free blacks; Coffin, Levi, 1789-1877; Underground Railroad--Rev. Jonathan Cable; Historic Jamestown Society--Underground Railroad; Mendenhall Home Place--Underground Railroad; Black watermen--Tidewater Region--Underground Railroad; Quakers--Slavery; Society of Friends--see also Quakers; Coffin, Addison; Coffin, Vestal; Piedmont Underground Railroad--free blacks; New Garden Friends Boarding School--Piedmont Underground Railroad; Stanley, Joshua; Stanley, Abigail Hunt; Guilford College--Friends Historical Collection; Guilford College--Quaker Archives; Abolitionists; Abolitionists--North Carolina; Dismal Swamp--Runaway Slaves; Manumission Society--Guilford County; Free blacks--Antebellum South