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September, 2005
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Front Line of Freedom
African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley

By Keith P. Griffler
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xvi, 169. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

Fleeing for Freedom
Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told By Levi Coffin and William Still

Edited by George and Willene Hendrick
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Pp. xi, 209. Map, illustrations, notes. Paperbound, $14.95.)

Long a story with a grip on the American imagination, the history of the Underground Railroad (UGRR) has recently attracted intensified interest. Programs like Conner Prairie's Follow the North Star and the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati attest to this renewed focus on the story. With this renewal has come a needed reappraisal. 1
      Much early work on the UGRR centered on white "conductors" (perhaps in some part as an exercise in expatiation of white guilt over slavery) or attempted to identify houses that were "stations" along the circuitous pathway to freedom. Historians and restorationists soon realized that if every house with a basement or hidden room which adherents claim once hid fleeing slaves actually performed that noble function, the South would have been emptied of the victims of the "peculiar institution." . . .
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