The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813108640 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 201 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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" The underground railroadwith its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villainshas become part of American mythology. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom.. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda
Well written, on an important subject, it provides salutary correction to a well-entrenched myth." Chicago Tribune""A classic." New York Times" . In The Liberty Line , the legend's ghost is fortunately and finally exorcised, and about time." Saturaday Review""The book is an unusually valuable piece of academic research. "History has been utterly wrong in ascribing to the abolitionist movement a thoroughgoing and smoothly run underground transportation system for runaway slaves
The Liberty Line is must reading for scholars of 19th century American history This book effectivdely shows that most of the information circulated about the UGRR is based on folklore; exaggerated accounts magnifiied by telling; and faulty memories of those who furnished early data to earlier historians of the UGRR. It is a pleasant antidote to late 20th century political correctness views of history.. bibliophile said A level-headed masterpiece. The truth about the Underground Railroad is difficult to establish, because the operators were violating federal law and consequently kept few records. Most of the early books about it were based on recollections of participants or their children, collected long after Emancipation, and most of these reflected the perspectives of the whites who helped the escaping slaves. It is to Gara's book and his other writings that we owe the major reexamination of the entire phenomenon. He refocu