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On freedom road : bicycle explorations and reckonings on the Underground Railroad / David Goodrich.

by Goodrich, David M.

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Pegasus Books, 2023.

Goodrich, David M. -- Travel -- United States.

Underground Railroad -- History.

Bicycle touring -- United States.

Historic sites -- United States.

Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

9781639363452 (hc.)

1st Pegasus Books ed.

ix, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

David Goodrich is the former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Observations and Monitoring Program, and served as the Director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of 'A Hole in the Wind,' which was a 'One City, One Book' pick for San Francisco, and 'A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean,' also available from Pegasus Books. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246).

"A thoughtful and illuminating bicycle journey along the Underground Railroad by a climate scientist seeking to engage with American history. The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike; an industrial outbuilding in Ohio. Over the course of four years, David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles east of the Mississippi to travel the routes of the Underground Railroad and delve into the history and stories in the places where they happened. He followed the most famous of conductors, Harriet Tubman, from where she was enslaved in Maryland, on the eastern shore, all the way to her family sanctuary at a tiny chapel in Ontario, Canada. Traveling South, he rode from New Orleans, where the enslaved were bought and sold, through Mississippi and the heart of the Delta Blues. As we pedal along with him, Goodrich brings us to the Borderland along the Ohio River, a kind of no-mans-land between North and South in the years before the Civil War. Here, slave hunters roamed both banks of the river, trying to catch people as they fled for freedom. We travel to Oberlin, Ohio, a town that staunchly defended freedom seekers, embodied in the life of Lewis Leary, who was lost in the fires of Harpers Ferry, but his spirit was reborn in the Harlem Renaissance. On Freedom Road enables us to see familiar places--New York and Philadelphia, New Orleans and Buffalo--in a very different light: from the vantage point of desperate people seeking to outrun the reach of slavery. Join in this journey to find the heroes and stories, both known and hidden, of the Underground Railroad."--From publisher.

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