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A Southern Underground Railroad describes how and why hundreds of enslaved coastal Georgia Black people risked their lives and escaped to freedom—by heading south to the freedom promised by Spanish Florida, over 100 miles south of Savannah on the Atlantic coast. Pressly’s research explores how and why the Southeast, especially the Georgia coast, provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the emergence of the Underground Railroad in the final years of the antebellum period.
His highly readable prose gives life to many Black individuals who escaped enslavement, and who assisted hundreds of others in their quests for liberty, both by sea and by land. Pressly shows how their movement across cultural and international borders, compelled by personal desire for self-determination, was an integral part of the larger, sustained struggle for political dominance between the newly-formed United States, the Spanish colonies in Florida, and the Seminole and Creek indigenous nations that were being systematically pushed out of their homeland.
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