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Flight to Freedom

Flight to Freedom

Dorothee von Huene Greenberg Ph.D.

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AuthorHouse
Año de edición:
2024
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Historia
ISBN:
9798823037525

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The focus of this book is a rarely mentioned track of the Underground Railroad in NewYork State reported in a 1939 letter by the son of two of its station masters: Moses Pierceand Esther Carpenter Pierce of Pleasantville, New York. Fortunately, there is publisheddocumentation of this track, which started with Esther Pierce’s parents in New Rochelle,continued to Pleasantville, then to the Jay family in Bedford, from there to David Irishon Quaker Hill in Pawling, and possibly on to a recently confi rmed station in Albany,New York. From there fugitives could have gone on to other New York homes beforecrossing the Niagara River to freedom in Canada. The book containing many imagesgives details about the individuals on this track, but also new facts about persons onboth sides of the Atlantic whose dedicated human rights activism and research shednew light on Africa, its people and culture, which helped end slavery in Britain andthe United States.

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