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Rent Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: Feb 2004
Genre: History - United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 224
Synopsis
Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. A colorful yet balanced portrait. --William L. Van Deburg