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Discovering the underground railroad : junior ranger activity book
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.?] : National Park Service,

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The fugitive
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ISBN: 0814336108 9780814336106 9780814334294 0814334296 Year: 2011 Publisher: Detroit Wayne State University Press

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Nanny's Asafo warriors
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ISBN: 9766376654 9766375178 9789766376659 9789766375171 Year: 2011 Publisher: Kingston Miami Ian Randle Publishers

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Een zwarte vrijstaat in Suriname
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ISBN: 9004253661 9789004253667 1299784178 9781299784178 9067183733 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden

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Waar plantages en slaven zijn, vluchten slaven van plantages. Al vrij snel na de stichting van de plantagekolonie Suriname (1651) ontsnapten Afrikaanse slaven om een menswaardig bestaan op te bouwen in het immense regenwoud. Zij vestigden zich in het labyrint van kreken en rivieren en voerden vandaar een felle guerrilla tegen de blanke planters. Een van deze groepen Marrons, zoals de gevluchte slaven in de literatuur bekend staan, is de Okanisi. Een zwarte vrijstaat in Suriname vertelt de geschiedenis van de Okanisi in de achttiende eeuw. Het is een geschiedenis van hekserij en orakels, van knechting en ontsnapping, van opsporing en oorlog. Na jaren van strijd kwam de koloniale overheid tot de conclusie dat zij de Marrons niet onderwerpen kon en bood hun in 1760 een vrede aan die door de Okanisi werd geaccepteerd. Het sluiten van de vrede tussen overheid en Okanisi was de erkenning van de eerste ‘zwarte vrijstaat’ in Suriname. De geschiedenis van de Okanisi is geschreven op basis van uniek materiaal. Dat materiaal bestaat uit verslagen van de koloniale oorlog tegen de Marrons en uit mondelinge overleveringen van de Okanisi. Een zwarte vrijstaat toont overtuigend aan dat in het verleden het heden ligt.


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Uncle Tom's story of his life : an autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson, from 1789-1876
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ISBN: 146960289X 0807869627 0807869619 9780807869628 9798890843289 9798890843272 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version. The autobiography traces Henson's life from his birth into slavery in Maryland in 1789; his escape to Canada in 1830; his participation in the founding of the Dawn Settlement for fugitive slaves in Ontario; and his several trips to England to raise funds for the settlement.


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Narrative of William W. Brown, anAmerican slave
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ISBN: 1469602881 0807869600 9780807869604 9781469602882 0807869597 9780807869598 9780807869598 9798890843258 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press,

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By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recounts his years in servitude, his cruel masters, and the brutal whippings he and those around him received. He provides a detailed description of his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture, they were sold to new masters. A subsequent escape attempt succeeds. He is taken in by a kind Quaker, Wells Brown, whose name he adopts in gratitude. Shortly thereafter, Brown crosses the Canadian border. Brown's Narrative includes stories of fighting devious slave traders and bounty hunters, various antislavery poems, articles and stories (written by him and others), newspaper clippings, reward posters, and slave sale announcements.

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