Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still

Published to coincide with Black History Month and the opening of the new Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Fleeing for Freedom includes selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. George and Willene Hendrick have chosen a broad range of stories to reflect the strategies, tactics, heartbreak, and dangers-for both the slaves and the "conductors"-of the secret network. In their Introduction, they provide basic information about the scope and workings of the Underground Railroad and its impact on slaves, slaveholders, and the Northern abolitionist societies that were so heavily involved. Fleeing for Freedom offers gripping personal accounts of one of the great collaborations between whites and blacks in American history. With 15 black-and-white engravings and line drawings.

Author: Willene Hendrick
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 11/17/2003
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.60w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781566635462
ISBN10: 1566635462
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General

About the Author
George and Willene Hendrick are independent scholars and researchers who together have written The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship, and edited Two Slave Rebellions at Sea and several collections of Carl Sandburg's poems, including Poems for the People. George Hendrick, formerly professor of English at the University of Illinois, has also edited To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones. The Hendricks live in Urbana, Illinois.