Sailing to freedom : maritime dimensions of the Underground Railroad /
"In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century, an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic...
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2021]
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