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Griffler, Keith. "The Underground Railroad and the Struggle for African American Rights in the Antebellum North" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA, <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p35441_index.html>

Griffler, K. "The Underground Railroad and the Struggle for African American Rights in the Antebellum North" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p35441_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Paper Abstract: The Underground Railroad was in practice one of the largest emigrationist movements in the history of the United States, one in which tens of thousands of African Americans struck a blow for freedom within the nation only by means of leaving it. Though the Underground Railroad is generally popularly imagined as an institution that transported African Americans from slavery to freedom, in its actual operation, aid to fugitives almost always commenced only when they had first reached free soil on their own. The conditions it transported African Americans away from were not thereby those of the slave states but, rather, those of the purportedly free North. Such a standpoint reveals that the site of resistance was as much the free North through which fugitives passed as the slave South from which they were escaping. Focusing on the activities of the African American underground in the Ohio Valley from the 1820s through the 1850s, this paper examines the Underground Railroad in the Northwest as one of the earliest and most successful civil rights movements in U.S. history. It concludes that whatever its role in furthering the transformation of the South, the Underground Railroad helped dramatically alter racial landscape in the antebellum Northwest.

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