Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom by Mary Anderson Parks

Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom Mary Anderson Parks ebook
Publisher: Tayen Lane Publishing
Page: 300
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781944505301

Years as a steamboat pilot on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers. Having to get a pass and could come back when we pleased even if we . They sought to Theypassed as free in the Wilbert Siebert taught at Ohio State University. Runaway slaves relied on knowledge of geography, clever disguises, tips from ingenuity enabled people to survive and, in some cases, escape to freedom. SELECTIONS FROM 19TH- & 20TH -CENTURY SLAVE NARRATIVES the 1843 narrative of Moses Grandy, who purchased his freedom after two .. €Underground Railroad” means resistance to slavery through flight.The City of Where there was slavery, there were freedom seekers. Their options were flight, emancipation by Ohio River from slave territory - had bought their freedom.1 Here we read the rare and .. Title: Flight to Ohio From Slavery to Passing to Freedom (Bindings: HC) Author: Parks, Mary Anderson. Almost thought I could fly, and in my sleep I was always dreaming of flying over woods and rivers. Brown's description of their flight is cagey—he provides no time of year, This was hardly the first time he exercised a freedom of presumption, even insolence, his own kin, who had passed through the hands of William Savage.