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Landscape of Freedom Landscape of Freedom
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Caves Caves
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Waterways Waterways
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Iron furnaces Iron furnaces
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Houses Houses
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Inferior or Undesirable Land Inferior or Undesirable Land
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Dispersed Settlement Patterns Dispersed Settlement Patterns
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Close Proximity to Larger, Better Documented Underground Railroad Activity Close Proximity to Larger, Better Documented Underground Railroad Activity
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Cemeteries Cemeteries
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5 The Geography of Resistance
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Published:December 2013
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This chapter examines escape routes, churches, iron forges and furnaces, and waterways that make up the pathways to freedom and “the geography of resistance.” It considers the concept of freedom as a place by exploring the connections between freedom and the landscape, and between Black communities and the Underground Railroad. It discusses the obstacles that captives escaping slavery had to hurdle, such as losing the challenges of the terrain and bad weather, betrayal, physical suffering, and slave catchers. It also looks at houses as artifacts of the Underground Railroad in the landscape, along with the patterns of rural Black settlements and how most free Blacks often found themselves saddled with the least desirable land. It argues that the landscape is an intimate component of the Black experience, providing crucial pathways out of slavery, and that generations of escapees on the Underground Railroad turned to the sheltering anonymity of the land to conceal their journey.
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