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CALL NUMBER: 973.7115 New
OBJECT TYPE: Book
TITLE: Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION: Study of the ways that enslaved people used Virginia’s waterways to achieve humanity’s dream of 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. Author Cassandra Newby-Alexander currently serves as a professor of history and the director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for the African Diaspora at Norfolk State University. Gift of the Cobbs Hall NSDAR, 2018.
AUTHOR: Newby-Alexander, Cassandra
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PUBLICATION DATE: 2017
PUBLISHER: History Press
PLACE OF PUBLICATION: Charleston, SC
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