Underground Railroad

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• 9/15/19
  

  The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Studying the role of Native Americans in assisting freedom seekers in the pre-Civil War Midwest requires the historian to assemble an archive from a range of disparate sources.  

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• 2/3/19
  

  What Popular Histories Often Get Wrong About the Underground Railroad

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Underground Railroad activists and fugitive slaves had to improvise in response to ever-shifting circumstances.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3-23-18
  

  Underground Railroad Safe House Discovered in Philadelphia

  Preservationists say they have identified the home of famed black abolitionist William Still, who offered refuge to hundreds of freedom seekers.

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• SOURCE: PRI
  4-29-17
  

  This underground railroad took slaves to freedom in Mexico

  Slaves in the US famously took the underground railroad north into free states and Canada, but a similar path existed to the south into Mexico.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8-22-16
  

  The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad

  by Kathryn Schulz

  Hardly anyone used it, but it provides us with moral comfort—and white heroes.

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• 7-3-16
  

  Latest Hollywood Trend? Underground Railroad Chic.

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  What’s wrong with that? Too often glitz trumps historical fact.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2-16-15
  

  The Secret History of the Underground Railroad

  by Adam Goodheart

  Eric Foner explores how it really worked.

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• 2-6-15
  

  The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad: An Interview with Eric Foner

  by Robin Lindley

  Renowned American historian Eric Foner demystifies and clarifies the story of the Underground Railroad in his new book "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-14-15
  

  Eric Foner rewrites the history of the Underground Railroad

  The Columbia professor debunks the debunker who claimed that the Underground Railroad was largely fictional

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• SOURCE: RedAndBlack
  10-28-14
  

  Eric Foner debunks Underground Railroad myth

  In January Foner’s latest book will be published: “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.”