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The resource documents available for download here have curious people like you in mind. The unifying theme is “How to.”
The Underground Railroad Historic Context is both a database of Underground Railroad information for Delaware (up to 2009) and a framework for the time and space of the stories. The authors are acclaimed Tubman biographer, Kate Clifford Larson and Delaware historic preservation professional and educator, Robin Krawitz.
Reconstructing Delaware’s Free Black Communities, 1800-1870, is a guide by the University of Delaware, Center for Historic Architecture and Design to the ins and outs of using primary documents to get to the essence of fading or disappeared communities that were essential to newly free people and freedom seekers. It includes case studies of Polktown, Belltown and several others.
The Underground Railroad in Delaware
A Research Context
1787-1865
Final Draft
January 17, 2007
Written and compiled by
Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D
Department of History, Simmons College
Boston, MA
and
Robin Bodo, Historian
Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
For
The Underground Railroad in Delaware
A Research Context
1787-1865
Final Draft
January 17, 2007
Written and compiled by
Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D
Department of History, Simmons College
Boston, MA
and
Robin Bodo, Historian
Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
For
The Underground Railroad in Delaware
A Research Context
1787-1865
Final Draft
January 17, 2007
Written and compiled by
Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D
Department of History, Simmons College
Boston, MA
and
Robin Bodo, Historian
Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
For
The Underground Railroad in Delaware
A Research Context
1787-1865
Final Draft
January 17, 2007
Written and compiled by
Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D
Department of History, Simmons College
Boston, MA
and
Robin Bodo, Historian
Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
For
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