Free Black communities and the Underground Railroad : the geography of resistance / Cheryl Janifer LaRoche.

Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

xviii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

This 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.

English

February 26, 2014

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-218) and index.