[PDF.23un] The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad

The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad

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 | #731486 in Books |  The University Press of Kentucky |  1996-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.49 x5.51l,.67 | File type: PDF | 201 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| The Liberty Line is must reading for scholars of 19th century American history|By Thyra Russell|This book effectivdely shows that most of the information circulated about the UGRR is based on folklore; exaggerated accounts magnifiied by telling; and faulty memories of those who furnished early data to earlier historians of the UGRR. It is a pleasant antidote to late 20th cent| |"History has been utterly wrong in ascribing to the abolitionist movement a thoroughgoing and smoothly run underground transportation system for runaway slaves. In The Liberty Line , the legend's ghost is fortunately and finally exorcised, and about time." Sat

" The underground railroad―with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains―has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popu...

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