| #317144 in Books | 2009-10-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.82 x5.98l,1.19 | File type: PDF | 372 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Intriguing and moving|By Jude Silveira|This scholarly work examines New Bedford's unique role as America's most diverse and tolerant city --- a diversity born of whaling; a tolerance rooted in its Quaker roots origins. In no other city we're America's blacks as free and as safe as they were in New Bedford.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.||"This book makes a major contribution to the ongoing debate over the existence and nature of the Underground Railroad..." --Choice|About the Author||Kathryn Grover is an independent scholar, writer, and editor who lives in
An investigation of one city's emergence as a safe haven for fugitive slaves
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts | Kathryn Grover. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
