A fluid frontier : slavery, resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland / edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker ; with a foreword by David W. Blight.
| Uniform Title: | Great Lakes books.
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| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Great Lakes books.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 26 cm. |
| Variant Title: |
Slavery, resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River borderland. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Uncertain freedom in frontier Detroit / Veta Smith Tucker
- Forging transnational networks for freedom / Karolyn Smarz Frost
- The illusion of safety: attempts to extradite fugitive slaves from Canada / Bryan Prince
- Canadian black settlements in the Detroit River region / Irene Moore Davis
- Worship way stations in Detroit / Barbara Hughes Smith
- Extending the right hand of fellowship: Sandwich Baptist Church, Amherstburg First Baptist, and the Amherstburg Baptist Association / Adrienne Shadd
- The Voice of the Fugitive: a transnational abolitionist organ / Afua Cooper
- A community militant and organized: the Colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit / Roy Finkenbine
- I am going straight to Canada: women underground railroad activists in the Detroit River border zone / Margaret Washington
- Bridging rivers: Caroline Quarlls's remarkable journey / Kimberly Simmons and Larry McClellan
- One more river to cross: the Crosswhites' escapes from slavery / Debian Marty
- The McCoys: charting freedom from both sides of the river / Carol E. Mull
- The useful frontier: John Brown's Detroit River preface to the Harper's Ferry raid / Louis A. Decaro, Jr.