Underground Railroad
eBook - ePub

Underground Railroad

in Pennsylvania

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Underground Railroad

in Pennsylvania

About this book

A revised and expanded history of Pennsylvania's role in the Underground Railroad, featuring escape route maps and eyewitness accounts.
Organized in antebellum America to help enslaved people escape to freedom, the Underground Railroad was cloaked in secrecy and operated at great peril to everyone involved. The system was extremely active in Pennsylvania, with routes running through cities and towns in all parts of the state.

This revised second edition of  Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania retraces the routes with detailed maps, discusses the large city networks, identifies the houses and sites where escapees found refuge, and records the names of the people who risked their lives to support the operation.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. The Escape of Henry “Box” Brown
  6. The Setting
  7. Operation of the Railroad
  8. Bedford–Clearfield Route
  9. Uniontown–Indiana Route
  10. Uniontown–Pittsburgh Route
  11. Washington Route
  12. Pittsburgh Network
  13. Crawford–Erie County Network
  14. Central Route
  15. Southeastern Corridor
  16. Philadelphia Network
  17. Northeastern Corridor
  18. The Role of Organized Religion
  19. Appendix
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover
  24. Discover more