http://www.metafilter.com/tags/undergroundrailroad Posts tagged with 'undergroundrailroad' at MetaFilter. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:36:24 -0800 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:36:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72529/Underground%2DRailroad The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad">Underground Railroad</a> refers to the effort -- sometimes spontaneous, sometimes highly organized -- to assist persons held in bondage in North America to escape from slavery. <a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/underground/states.htm">Historic places</a> along the Underground Railroad are testament of African American resolve. One of those places is <a href="http://www.lycoming.edu/underground/intro.htm">Lycoming County, PA</a>. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j1.html">Do you try it</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72529 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:36:24 -0800 africanamerican freedom harriettubman lycoming railroad slavery underground undergroundrailroad netbros http://www.metafilter.com/57986/Code%2DBreaking <a href="http://www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/">Did Anyone Really Follow the Drinking Gourd?</a> Were you taught that slaves in the antebellum South sang this traditional song to convey coded instructions for escaping Northward? Were you taught that <a href="http://ugrrquilt.hartcottagequilts.com/">quilt block patterns could be read as a map to freedom</a>, or that quilts were <a href="http://ugrrquilt.hartcottagequilts.com/rr2.htm#use">hung outside safe houses</a> as signals to escaping slaves?Though these are among the most <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679874720/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">often</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517885433/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">taught</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679819975/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">stories</a> of the operation of the Underground Railroad, <a href="http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews11.shtml">current</a> <a href="http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/33540.html">scholarship</a> indicates that these aren't survivals of pre-Civil War African-American folklore, but legends constructed and popularized within the twentieth century, frequently by white writers and performers. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/nyregion/23quilt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">In today's New York Times</a>, these legends battle it out with fact in debate over <a href="http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/PDFs/MillerAlgernon.pdf">the proposed design of a new Frederick Douglass memorial [PDF]</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.57986 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:27:30 -0800 african-american folklore history legend music quilt slavery slaves undergroundrailroad Miko