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A SOUTHERN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD By Dr. Paul M. Pressly

$29.95

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Forward by James F. Brooks

A Southern Underground Railroad constitutes a powerful counter-narrative in American history, a tale of how enslaved men and women found freedom and human dignity not in Jefferson’s “Empire of Liberty” but outside the expanding boundaries of the United States.

Pre-order book for local pickup for the Tuesday, October 29, Savannah book signing and lecture at the Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St. 5:30 doors open, 6:00-7:00 pm lecture.

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/EDITOR

PAUL M. PRESSLY is Director Emeritus of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance, a partnership of the University System of Georgia and the Ossabaw Island Foundation. For 23 years he was Headmaster of Savannah Country Day School. Pressly has written or served as co-editor for three award-winning books on Georgia history. 

Pub Date: 08/01/2024

ISBN: 9-780-8203-6687-6

 

 

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