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Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad

Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
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ISBN-10 : 9781625859631
ISBN-13 : 1625859635
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Book Synopsis Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad by : Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, PhD

Download or read book Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad written by Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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