Author: Wayne Macvicar
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia
ISBN:
Category : Death notices
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Obituaries from the Sydney Post-record
Author: Wayne Macvicar
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia
ISBN:
Category : Death notices
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia
ISBN:
Category : Death notices
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Catalogue of Accessioned Publications
Author: World Data Center A--Oceanography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Preliminary Inventory of the Records of United States Participation in International Conferences, Commissions, and Expositions
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Records of the Australian Museum
Author: Australian Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament
Author: Australia. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Gateway To Freedom
Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393244075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393244075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.
Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commisioners, the catalogue of exhibits, together with sundry illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commisioners, the catalogue of exhibits, together with sundry illustrations.
The Zoological Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
Book Description
Indexes the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides a collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other no- serial literature from over 100 countries. It is the oldest continuing database of animal biology, indexing literature published from 1864 to the present. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics in animal biology are also covered.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
Book Description
Indexes the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides a collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other no- serial literature from over 100 countries. It is the oldest continuing database of animal biology, indexing literature published from 1864 to the present. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics in animal biology are also covered.
Brick and Clay Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Postage Stamps, Envelopes, Wrappers, Post Cards, and Telegraph Stamps of New South Wales
Author: A. F. Basset Hull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covers (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Covers (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description