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"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 the history of this institution, which Larry Gara carefully investigates in this important study. Gara show how pre-Civil War partisan propaganda, postwar reminiscences 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 that legend, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escapes from slave states. They carried out their runs to the North, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return under the Fugitive Slave Law. Thus, The Liberty Line places fugitive slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
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Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad
2013, University Press of Kentucky
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Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad
2013, University Press of Kentucky
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The liberty line: the legend of the underground railroad
1996, University Press of Kentucky
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0813108640 9780813108643
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The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad
February 1980, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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The liberty line: the legend of the underground railroad.
1967, University of Kentucky Press
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