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05123aam a2200589 i 4500 001 E6E14D64214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 201123t20212021mauab b 001 0deng 010 $a 2020053343 020 $a 1625345933 020 $a 9781625345936 020 $a 1625345925 020 $a 9781625345929 035 $a (OCoLC)1203956567 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d OBE $d CVM $d OCLCO $d XII $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E450 $b .S25 2021 082 00 $a 973.7/115 $2 23 245 00 $a Sailing to freedom : $b maritime dimensions of the Underground Railroad / $c edited by Timothy D. Walker. 246 30 $a Maritime dimensions of the Underground Railroad 264 1 $a Amherst : $b University of Massachusetts Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiii, 231 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Freedom on th move by sea: Evidence of maritime escape strategies in American runaway slave advertisements / $r Megan Jeffreys. $t Working on the docks: Waterfront labor, coastal commerce, and escaping enslavement from Charleston, South Carolina / $r Michael D. Thompson -- $t Black watermen, fugitives from slavery, and an old woman on the edge of the swamp: Maritime passages to freedom from coastal North Carolina / $r David S. Cecelski -- $t Hampton Roads and Norfolk, Virginia, as a waypoint and gateway for enslaved persons seeking freedom / $r Cassandra Newby-Alexander -- $t The Underground Railroad in Maryland's ports, bays, and harbors: Maritime strategies for freedom / $r Cheryl Janifer Laroche -- $t Claiming liberty by sea: the Port of New York as a fugitive's gateway from enslavement / $r Mirelle Luecke -- $t Abolitionists and seaborne fugitives in coastal eastern Connecticut: Escaping slavery in New London, Mystic, and Stonington / $r Elysa Engelman -- $t Seaborne fugitives from slavery and the ports of eastern Massachusetts / $r Kathryn Grover -- $t Making a living in the "Fugitive's Gibraltar": People of color in New Bedford, 1838-1845 / $r Len Travers -- $t Freedom on th move by sea: Evidence of maritime escape strategies in American runaway slave advertisements / $r Megan Jeffreys. 520 $a "In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century, an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Underground Railroad. 650 0 $a Fugitive slaves $z Atlantic Coast (U.S.) $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Waterways $z Atlantic Coast (U.S.) $x History $y 19th century. 650 6 $a Underground Railroad. 650 6 $a Esclaves fugitifs $z Atlantique, CoÌte de l' (EÌtats-Unis) $x Histoire $y 19e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a Noirs ameÌricains $x Histoire $y 19e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a Mouvements antiesclavagistes $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Voies navigables $z Atlantique, CoÌte de l' (EÌtats-Unis) $x Histoire $y 19e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a African Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799558 650 7 $a Antislavery movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810800 650 7 $a Fugitive slaves. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935940 650 7 $a Underground Railroad. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01160987 650 7 $a Waterways. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01172780 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a United States $z Atlantic Coast. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01240719 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Walker, Timothy Dale, $d 1963- $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Sailing to freedom $d Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. $z 9781613768488 $w (DLC) 2020053344 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100244.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E6E14D64214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search