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41246
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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.
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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
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41247
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The outcomes of this case were a mixed blessing. Concerns over the growing free black population and criticism from the North about slavery prompted the erosion of legal rights in North Carolina for blacks free from a legal, but not social, standpoint. It also proved there were white North Carolinians committed to continuing legal rights for free blacks, bettering the treatment of enslaved blacks, and enlisting their aid in preventing slave rebellions.
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Free blacks--Antebellum South; Legal status--free blacks and slaves--Antebellum period; Free blacks--Antebellum period--North Carolina; Black slave owners--Antebellum period--North Carolina; State vs Edmund, a Slave 1833; Suffrage--black males--Antebellum period; Daniel, Joseph J., 1784-1848; State vs Edmund, a Slave, 1833--Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin
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41248
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The claim for ownership of a mountain was waged for over a century and involved locals, state and federal authorities, and private interest groups. Officially, much of the land around Mount Mitchell currently belongs to the government. Continuing conservation efforts suggest, though, that ownership, as defined by a sense of responsibility, is still the province of the public.
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Mount Mitchell--History; Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857; Conservation of natural resources--Mount Mitchell; Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833; Strother, John, d. 1815; Love, Robert, 1760-1845; Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--Wilson Library--North Carolina Collection; Wilson, Thomas David, 1825-1909--see also Big Tom Wilson ; Clingman, T.L. (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897; Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894; Bailey, John Lancaster, 1785-1874; Craig, Locke, 1860-1924; Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy