Sailing to freedom maritime dimensions of the Underground Railroad
"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...
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Amherst ; Boston
University of Massachusetts Press
2021
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Underground railroad
> Fugitive slaves / Atlantic Coast (U.S.) / History / 19th century
> African Americans / History / 19th century
> Antislavery movements / United States / History
> Waterways / Atlantic Coast (U.S.) / History / 19th century
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> USA
> Atlantikküste
> Wasserstraße
> Underground Railroad
> Geschichte
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