I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground RailroadMacmillan, 24 jun 2008 - 480 pagina's It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was captured and sentenced to return to Kentucky in chains. But Detroit's black community rallied to their cause in the Blackburn Riots of 1833, the first racial uprising in the city's history. Thornton and Lucie were spirited across the river to Canada, but their safety proved illusory when Michigan's governor demanded their extradition. Canada's defense of the Blackburns set the tone for all future diplomatic relations with the United States over the thorny issue of the fugitive slave, and confirmed the British colony as the main terminus of the Underground Railroad. |
Inhoudsopgave
Wade in the Water Children | 3 |
There Is a Land Beyond the River | 15 |
On Jordans Bank | 47 |
Troubling the Waters | 71 |
Im Bound to Go | 94 |
Now Let Me Fly | 117 |
DETROIT | 123 |
Steal Away Steal Away I Aint Got Long to Stay Here | 139 |
Wrestling Jacob | 241 |
At Home in the Promised Land | 254 |
Soldiers in the Army of the Lord | 279 |
Gird Up Your Sword | 310 |
Oh Wasnt That a Wide River? | 327 |
Epilogue | 346 |
Notes | 355 |
Bibliography | 403 |
Tell Old Pharaoh to Let My People Go | 163 |
Oh Freedom | 193 |
One More River to Cross | 221 |
Primary Sources | 429 |
Acknowledgments | 437 |
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