""I was born at the tail end of a unique and delightful era and raised on one of the last showboats to struggle for survival against the devastating crunch of progress ... Our showboat's express purpose was carrying entertainment to hundreds of thousands of river-bottom farmers …
Traditional historical accounts depict the Underground Railroad as a movement engineered and maintained by white abolitionists, and many have assumed that African Americans played no significant role except as passengers. [This book] shifts the focus away from the usual emphasis…
The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white ""conductors"" and black ""passengers."" Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates o…
The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white ""conductors"" and black ""passengers."" Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates o…
The Underground Railroad has been viewed as a combination of white 'conductors' and black 'passengers'. This text offers a battlefield-level view of the war against slavery as it examines one of its front lines - the Ohio River, the longest commercial dividing line between slave…
"In Front Line of Freedom, Keith P. Griffler shifts the focus away, from the usual emphasis placed on support operations, or "stations," run by whites along routes used to conduct fugitives into the Northern states or into Canada. Instead, he stresses the essential role of Afric…
"In Front Line of Freedom, Keith P. Griffler shifts the focus away, from the usual emphasis placed on support operations, or "stations," run by whites along routes used to conduct fugitives into the Northern states or into Canada. Instead, he stresses the essential role of Afric…
The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white ""conductors"" and black ""passengers."" Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates o…