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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Underground Railroad"”.
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America’s Enabler: How Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Contributes to Racial Inertia
<p>Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> was met with near universal acclaim and enjoys regard as an important work which illustrates the difficulty and horror that was black life under chattel slavery. This essay argues that despite the work’s stated purpose, its ultimate, if …
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Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870)
… selected because of their involvement in the Underground Railroad. I employed a combination of educational and social history methods, qualitative and quantitative. An analysis of federal census reports, state superintendent reports, city directories, area maps, and property records for the …
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FROM RIVER ROAD PLANTATIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: BRINGING THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT RACIAL DIVIDE
… plantations and Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> to illustrate the persistence of injustice beyond slavery to Jim Crow laws, color-blind rhetoric, and mass incarceration. At each plantation, I encounter a varied history of slavery and find that many of these historical …
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An exploratory investigation into the outcomes of the integration of language arts and social studies lessons
… studies lessons takes place in a unit on the Underground Railroad in a fourth grade classroom. By applying a literature-based approach to teaching social studies concepts and using the theme of the Underground Railroad, I was able to integrate these two subjects in a way that was engaging to …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… (1820--1913): slave, famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, abolitionist, spy, nurse, and suffragist. Her successful, secret journeys into the slave states to rescue bondwomen, men, and children have immortalized her in the minds of Americans for over one hundred and thirty years. One …
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The Choral Music of Donald Mccullough
… My People Go!, which recounts the history of the Underground Railroad.</p>
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A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature
… South-to-North geographical trajectory of the Underground Railroad, which has often framed the story of freedom and unfreedom for African Americans in pre-1865 US literary and cultural studies. Broadly, I argue that through maroons we can locate alternate spaces of fugitive freedom …
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Black Women and the Struggle for Education as the Practice of Freedom: Embodying an Ethic and Pedagogy of Liberation
… women serve as conductors on the contemporary Underground Railroad. Laboring within a city that holds complex legacies of abolition, resistance, and occupation, this study foregrounds the idea that Black women are critical agents in the realization of education for liberation within and beyond …
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IDENTITY AND IMPROVISATION: ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF TIMBUCTOO, NEW JERSEY.
… The community operated as a "station" along the Underground Railroad. At its peak Timbuctoo had over 125-150 residents and supported a general store, "colored" school, AMEZ church, cemetery and several homesteads. Today the only standing markers of the nineteenth century community are the …
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Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
… before looking to how Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Mohsin Hamid use fantastic transportation structures to show migration delinked from the need or demand for labor and resources. Each chapter features a social movement that emphasizes infrastructure and two novels that …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… draws on Gullah visual language, including Underground Railroad quilt codes and spiritual symbolism, while its non-linear navigation resists conventional heritage taxonomies. Rather than flattening culture into content, the site embraces ambiguity, withheld spatial detail, and narrative …
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Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
… when residents were actively involved in the Underground Railroad. Her protagonist, John Ames, recalls family stories of past activism from a hundred year vantage point. Due to the gradual, but pervasive homogeneity of his Iowa small town, Ames struggles with implementing his progressive, yet …
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Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
… when residents were actively involved in the Underground Railroad. Her protagonist, John Ames, recalls family stories of past activism from a hundred year vantage point. Due to the gradual, but pervasive homogeneity of his Iowa small town, Ames struggles with implementing his progressive, yet …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… fugitive slaves and harassed the South with the Underground Railroad, London realists could be expected to frustrate their larger purpose. Southerners’ assurance in the security of slavery diminished after 1843. Approached by the British government with an overture for an immigration agreement …
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Kongo to Kings County
… that the Lott Farmstead was a stopover for the Underground Railroad. This is based on several factors. One, there is corroboration of oral histories in different branches of the Lott family that fleeing captives were harbored in the home, including in the area over the kitchen, where there is a …
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
This dissertation argues that numerous ex-slave mistresses and the children they produced with white men thoughtfully rebuilt their lives as newly freed people by capitalizing on earlier, sometimes ongoing, ties to white men, but also by relying on themselves and others sharing their circumstances. …