Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery

(Part of the Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World Series)

by dann j. Broyld

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Winner of the OHS Fred Landon Award

In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including abolition of slavery, women's rights, and temperance. Moreover,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807177067

ISBN13:9780807177068

Release Date:May 2022

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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History Social Science Social Sciences

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Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery

(Part of the Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World Series)

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