The Underground Railroad
| Title | The Underground Railroad, Underground Railroad, De ondergrondse spoorweg |
|---|---|
| Derivative work | The Underground Railroad |
| Main subject | slavery in the United States, Underground Railroad |
| Form of creative work | novel |
| Has edition or translation | The Underground Railroad, The Underground Railroad |
| Author | Colson Whitehead |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 2 Ɔɔgore 2016 |
| Place of publication | United State Of America |
| Country of origin | United State Of America |
| Language of work or name | Bɔrefɔ |
| Kyɔɔtaare o naŋ nyɛ | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award |
| Nominated for | PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, Booker Prize, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel |
A Underground Railroad da e la lambo network ko secret routes ane safe houses nang taa toma ko a ka ba zo yi Northern United State[1]s ane Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans ane African Americans nang da zo yi a 16th century; Ba gyamaa zaa nang da zo da ba taa sammo.[2] [3][4]Neng a lɛ zaa, a network ko yisonne nang be a Underground Railroad da piilee ka ba lambo 1780s neng a Abolitionist Societies nang be a North.[5][6] O zo gaa north nang da bebe ne a Emancipation Proclamation da taa la saane neng 1863 yi President Abraham Lincoln.[7] A gbangba ɛda zo gaa la a free states, a da gaa be a Canada.[8]
A Underground Railroad started zie nang be enslavement. A sori nang be a natural ane man-made maaloo kyaare neng sori tuubu: rivers, canals, bays, a Atlantic Coast, ferries ane river crossings, roads ane trails. Bezie nang e ports, free territories ane international boundaries prompted gyamaa zie nang da zo.
A network, toma ko a African Americans,[9] da taa la sommo ko abolitionists ane sympathetic ko a zozoreba mine.[10] A noba bana nang da zo da tue soe mine Railroad, tutaalong. [11]Sobi-gyamaa ko a Mexico,[12] be gbangbaalong nang da ba taa eebo, ane a islands nang be Caribbean nang da ba paale a gbangbaalong nakoɔlong.[13] A sobiri nang be a south kyaare Florida, neng a Spanish taabo (kyɛ kyɛrɛɛ 1763–1783), nang da tong toma yi a 17th century te ta nang na bang ta 1790.[14] [15]A saŋa nang American Civil War, emmaarong boɔre Union lines nang be South ka ba nyɛ emmaarong. Peɛroo mine wuli ka 1850, ka foo nang yɛre o 100,000 gbangbaɛ da zo boɔrɔ emmaarong network. Yele yi a dasaŋa professor ko a Pan-African studies J. Blaine Hudson, nang da e wedere ko a College of Arts ane Sciences a University of Louisville, a baaroo saŋa a Civil War, 500,000 bee gyamaa African Americans da taa la bamenne guubu gbangbaalong kyaare a Underground Railroad.[16]
Terminology
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]Membare ko a Underground Railroad da tona neng la lamboe mine, nang be a metaphor ko a railway. Aseŋ:
- People who helped fugitive slaves find the railroad were "agents"
- Guides were known as "conductors"
- Hiding places were "stations" or "way stations"
- "Station masters" hid escaping slaves in their homes
- People escaping slavery were referred to as "passengers" or "cargo"
- Fugitive slaves would obtain a "ticket"
- Similar to common gospel lore, the "wheels would keep on turning"
- Financial benefactors of the Railroad were known as "stockholders"
- Promised Land – code word for Canada
- River Jordan – code word for Ohio River
- Heaven – code for freedom or Canada
A Big Dipper (nang e "laa" magere ko North Star) da e la a drinkin' gourd. A Railroad meng da e la "freedom train" bee "Gospel train", nang da kyaare a "Heaven" bee "a Promised Land", i.e., Canada.
Nembanne Mine
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- Ann Bamford
- John Brown
- Owen Brown (father)
- Owen Brown (son)
- Samuel Burris
- Obadiah Bush
- Levi Coffin
- George CorElizabeth Rous Comstockson
- Moses Dickson
- Frederick Douglass
- Asa Drury
- George Hussey Earle Sr.
- Calvin Fairbank
- Bartholomew Fussell
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Thomas Galt
- Thomas Garrett
- Sydney Howard Gay
- Josiah Bushnell Grinnell
- Frances Harper
- Laura Smith Haviland
- Lewis Hayden
- John Hunn
- Roger Hooker Leavitt
- Jermain Wesley Loguen
- Samuel Joseph May
- John Berry Meachum
- Mary Meachum
- Cynthia Catlin Miller
- William M. Mitchell
- Solomon Northup
- John Parker
- Elijah F. Pennypacker
- Mary Ellen Pleasant
- John Wesley Posey
- Amy and Isaac Post
- Peter Quire
- John Rankin
- Alexander Milton Ross
- David Ruggles
- Gerrit Smith
- George Luther Stearns
- William Still
- John Ton
- Charles Turner Torrey
- William Troy
- Harriet Tubman
- Martha Coffin Wright
- John Van Zandt
- Bernardhus Van Leer
- Silvia and John Webber
- Edward Wetheril
A popular culture
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]Daanoo ko fiction
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- The Underground Railroad is a 2016 novel by Colson Whitehead. It won the 2016 National Book Award and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- The Underground Railroad is a 2021 streaming television limited series, based on Whitehead's novel.
- Underground is an American television series that premiered in 2016, on WGN America.
Yelkaama
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- David Walker (1829) Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Caroline Lee Hentz (1854) The Planter's Northern Bride
- William M. Mitchell (1860) The Under-Ground Railroad
- Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1869) Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman; (1896) Harriet Tubman, Moses of Her People
- Barbara Smucker, (1977) Underground to Canada
Kaa kyɛ
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- United States portal
- Ausable Chasm, NY, home of the North Star Underground Railroad Museum
- Caroline Quarlls (1824–1892), first known person to escape slavery through Wisconsin's Underground Railroad
- Fort Mose Historic State Park
- Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History near Dresden, Ontario
- List of Underground Railroad sites
- Tilly Escape
- Timbuctoo, New York.
Nimitɔɔre kannoo
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- (Stories about Thomas Garrett, a famous agent on the Underground Railroad)
- (Classic book documenting the Underground Railroad operations in Philadelphia).
- The Underground Railroad public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- ; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2017 for its poetical, mythical reflection on the meaning of the Railroad in American history.
Ziiri mine liŋkiri
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]Underground Railroadat Wikipedia's sister projects
- Media from Commons
- Travel information from Wikivoyage
- Data from Wikidata
Library resources about
A Underground Railroad
- Online books
- Resources in your library
- Resources in other libraries
- Underground Railroad – National Park Service
- Underground Railroad: Language of Slavery
- Underground Railroad Studies
- Underground Railroad Timeline
- Friends of the Underground Railroad
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Underground Railroad Research Institute at Georgetown College[usurped]
- Underground Railroad in Buffalo and Upstate New York: A bibliography by The Buffalo History Museum
- Newspaper articles and clippings about the Underground Railroad at Newspapers.com
Sommo Yizie
[maaleŋ | Maale eŋ yizie]- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad#CITEREFHudson2015
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Service
- ↑ https://dspace.njstatelib.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/2d0a25c0-0b00-4c37-a53f-b8888b3e2193/content
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=7m8mTMjMSRYC&q=unaided
- ↑ https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/ugrr/exugrr2.htm#:~:text=The%20runaways%20became%20%22contraband%2C%22,the%20Army%20were%20initially%20rebuffed.
- ↑ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html
- ↑ https://www.thoughtco.com/ways-slaves-showed-resistance-to-slavery-45401
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55277-581-3
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1494767983
- ↑ https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Underground%20Railroad
- ↑ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html
- ↑ https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-29/underground-railroad-took-slaves-freedom-mexico
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/sheoh017_Jones_Leesa_transcript
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120321073827/https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jiODwWs22MG9qBGQ_ZI9U-6W3s9g?docId=b67287f0636841dfbad57fb14222cd97
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180213021610/https://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-02-14/features/9301090665_1_slaves-underground-railroad-francisco-menendez/2
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad#CITEREFHudson2015