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From Midnight to Dawn
the last tracks of the underground railroad
By Tobin, Jacqueline & Jones, Hettie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38551-431-6
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2007
Tens of thousands of blacks in antebellum America defied the law and the power of slavery by stealing themselves away from bondage. Among their loosely linked paths of hope lay what has come to be called the Underground Railroad. Spontaneous as well as structured, the underground sheltered those fleeing slavery, though the means varied and escape was seldom easy. Freelance writer and Washington, DC, tour operator Ricks narrates the story of a dash by sea from the U.S. capital in 1848. In perhaps the largest mass escape in U.S. slave history, 77 blacks sailed the 54-ton schoonerPearl from the Potomac into the Chesapeake. Heading north, they made it about 100 miles before an Atlantic storm stalled them and allowed captors to seize and return them to Washington, where their capture was hailed by heckling mobs.The plight of fugitive slaves galvanized and split communiti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
