The underground railroad from slavery to freedom

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

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Names: Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1898; Place: New York; Publisher: Macmillan
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division; Shelf locator: Sc 326.973F-S (Siebert, W. H. Underground railroad from slavery to freedom)
Topics: Underground Railroad; Fugitive slaves
Genres: Illustrations
Notes: Content: With an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart.
Physical Description: Extent: Xxvi, 478 p. : front., ill. (plans, facsims.) plates, ports., fold. map. ; 23 cm.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR9025201-B; Barcode: 3343303478887; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11675784; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 205503f0-c6b4-012f-8a4d-58d385a7bc34