Description
Offers a trip guide and historic connection with historic sites in twenty-three states and two Canadian provinces in the case of the Underground Railroad
A captivating selection of letters, diaries and narratives of slaves who risked death to seek out freedom, including Henry “Box” Brown, who nailed himself into a box and had it shipped to Phildelphia; William and Ellen Craft, who posed as master and slave and traveled openly out of the South; and an anonymous young lady who escaped with the assistance of Union infantrymen by dressing as certainly one of them. Organized geographically, with accompanying historical notes and sixteen pages of photographs.