| Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad Contributor(s): Newby-Alexander Phd, Cassandra L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1625859635 ISBN-13: 9781625859631 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | African American - Social Science | Slavery |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| LCCN: 2017953905 |
| Series: American Heritage |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Civil War - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A part of the Underground Railroad, read here of enslaved people and their stories of using Virginia's waterways to achieve freedom. Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by Virginia's waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped slaves made eighteenth-century Norfolk a haven for freedom seekers. Famous nineteenth-century escapees like Shadrack Minkins and Henry "Box" Brown were aided by the Underground Railroad. Enslaved men like Henry Lewey, known as Bluebeard, aided freedom seekers as conductors, and black and white sympathizers acted as station masters. Historian Cassandra Newby-Alexander narrates the ways that enslaved people used Virginia's waterways to achieve humanity's dream of freedom. |
Contributor Bio(s): Newby-Alexander Phd, Cassandra L.: - Cassandra Newby-Alexander currently serves as a professor of history and the director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for the African Diaspora at Norfolk State University. She has spearheaded the 1619 Making of America conference, which seeks to transform the narrative about the role of early Africans in the evolution of America. Her books include An African American History of the Civil War in Hampton Roads and Hampton Roads: Remembering Our Schools and Voices from within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy. |