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020 $a9781616895655 (hbk.) :$cNT$1400
082 04$a973.711500222$222
100 1 $aMichna-Bales, Jeanine.
245 10$aThrough darkness to light :$bphotographs along the underground railroad :a photographic essay /$cby Jeanine Michna-Bales ; foreword by Andrew J. Young ; essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
246 30$aA photographic essay.
260 $aNew York :$bPrinceton Architectural Press,$c[2017]
300 $a191 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c21 x 28 cm.
505 0 $a"They left in the middle of the night-- often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. An estimated one hundred thousand slaves between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865 embarked on a journey of untold hardship in search of freedom, many with the aid of the Underground Railroad. Through Darkness to Light : Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad imagines how this journey may have appeared through a series of atmospheric and evocative photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales. From over a decade's worth of research, Michna-Bales pieced together a route of Underground Railroad sites from the cotton plantations just south of Natchitoches, Louisiana, all the way north to the Canadian border, a path encompassing roughly two thousand miles. Complementing Michna-Bales' compelling photographs are essays on the history and figures of the Underground Railroad by Fergus M. Bordwich, Robert F. Darden, andEric R. Jackson"-- Provided by publisher.
650 0$aUnited States$vHistory, Local$vPictorial works.
650 0$aUnderground Railroad$vPictorial works.
650 0$aUnderground Railroad.
650 0$aFugitive slaves$vTravel$zUnited States$vHistory$vPictorial works.
650 0$aAfrican Americans$vHistory$y19th century$vPictorial works.
650 0$aHistoric sites$zUnited States$vPictorial works.