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Abandoned Tracks - The Underground Railroad in Washington County, Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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Abandoned Tracks - The Underground Railroad in Washington County, Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
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In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between
scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad.
Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the
Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory,
time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring's book is a rich, in-depth
attempt to separate fact from fiction in one local area, while also
contributing to a scholarly discussion of the Underground Railroad
by placing Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the national
context. Just as the North was not consistent in its perspective on
the Civil War and the slavery issue, the Underground Railroad had
distinct regional variations. Washington County had a
well-organized abolition movement, even though its members helped a
comparatively small number of fugitive slaves escape, largely
because of the small nearby slave population in what was then
western Virginia. Its origins as a slave county make it an
interesting case study of the transition from slavery to freedom
and of the origins of black and white abolitionism. Abandoned
Tracks lends much to the ongoing scholarly debate about the extent,
scope, and nature of the Underground Railroad. This book is written
both for scholars of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad and
for an audience interested in local history.
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