David Ruggles, a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City, Graham Russell Gao Hodges
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- Underground Railroad -- New York (State) -- New York
- Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- History
- Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- African American abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Ruggles, David, 1810-1849
- African American abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Biography
- Underground Railroad -- Massachusetts
- Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Biography
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David Ruggles, a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City, Graham Russell Gao Hodges
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index
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individual biography
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
David Ruggles
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bibliography
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428926481
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Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Series statement
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Sub title
a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
Summary
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was of one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. A forceful, courageous voice for black freedom, Ruggles mentored Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William Cooper Nell in the skills of antislavery activism. As a founder of the New York Committee of Vigilance, he advocated a "practical abolitionism" that included civil disobedience and self-defense in order to preserve the rights of self-emancipated enslaved people and to protect free blacks from kidnappers who would sell them into slavery in the South. Hodges's narrative places Ruggles in the fractious politics and society of New York, where he moved among the highest ranks of state leaders and spoke up for common black New Yorkers. His work on the Committee of Vigilance inspired many upstate New York and New England whites, who allied with him to form a network that became the Underground Railroad
Table of contents
A revolutionary childhood -- An apprentice abolitionist in post-emancipation New York City -- Making practical abolitionism -- Melding black abolitionism and the underground railroad -- Abolitionist and physician
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