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A fluid frontier [electronic resource] :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.

Contributor(s): Blight, David W [writer of foreword.] | Tucker, Veta Smith [editor.] | Smardz Frost, Karolyn [editor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Great Lakes books: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages :) illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780814339602; 0814339603.Subject(s): Underground Railroad | Fugitive slaves | Antislavery movements | Antislavery movements -- Michigan -- Detroit | Fugitive slaves -- Michigan -- Detroit | Underground Railroad -- Ontario | Underground Railroad -- Michigan -- Detroit | Ontario | North America -- Detroit River Valley | Michigan -- Detroit | Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) -- History -- 19th century | 1800-1899Genre/Form: History. | Electronic books. DDC classification: 973.7/115 Online resources: Full text available:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.

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.

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