Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland

by J.BlaineHudson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $25.01

  Examines the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. This book explains why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves.