The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad

by Larry Gara

Book Overview

" The underground railroad -- with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains -- has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813108640
• ISBN13: 9780813108643
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher