03669cam a2200661 4500 1174950257 TxAuBib 20240326120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781496238603 1496238605 B0CL5W9GQ8 Amazon fc806c4f-3355-40c5-9b8b-57a1a13450e6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10491702 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Blankenau, Gail Shaffer. Journey to Freedom [Libby eBook] : Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska Territory. Bison Books, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4043kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. african american history. African American Studies. Underground Railroad. territorial politics. Great Plains History. popular sovereignty. Nebraska territory. Stephen F Nuckolls. antebellum period. american history. Nebraska History. slave narrative. John Williamson. Midwest History. Missouri River. escaped slaves. Black history. black studies. Nebraska City. Celia Grayson. Eliza Grayson. enslavement. mixed race. Civil Bend. Nebraska. Slavery. History. Iowa. HTML:In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women—Celia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twenty—escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a man of African American and Cherokee descent from Iowa, guided them through the dark to the Missouri River, where they boarded a skiff and crossed the icy waters, heading for their first stop on the Underground Railroad at Civil Bend, Iowa.<br /> In <i>Journey to Freedom</i> Gail Shaffer Blankenau provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of these two enslaved Black women from Nebraska City. Poised on the "frontier," the Graysons' escape demonstrated that unique opportunities beckoned at the confluence of Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, and Kansas, and their actions challenged slavery's tentative expansion into the West and its eventual demise in an era of territorial fluidity. Their escape and the violence that followed prompted considerable debate across the country and led to the Nebraska legislature's move to prohibit slavery. Drawing on multiple collections, records, and slave narratives, <i>Journey to Freedom</i> sheds light on the Graysons' courage and agency as they became high-profile figures in the national debate between proslavery and antislavery factions in the antebellum period. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-03-25 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fc806c4f-3355-40c5-9b8b-57a1a13450e6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fc806c4f-3355-40c5-9b8b-57a1a13450e6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fc806c4f-3355-40c5-9b8b-57a1a13450e6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)