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This 4 page paper discusses the book “The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom” and its author Wilbur H. Seibert. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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it in 1899, he was more than 100 years closer to the events he studied than todays historians. In addition, he had access to sources-especially living persons-that later historians could
not duplicate. This paper reviews his book and discusses Siebert himself. Discussion Wilbur H. Siebert was Associate Professor of European History at Ohio State University when he wrote this book.
One of his major areas of specialization is the Underground Railroad; his research on the subject "contains one of the most extensive collections of letters and interviews of participants" (Wilbur
Seibert Underground Railroad Index). Seibert did his research in the 1890s, only 35 years after the end of the Civil War, so memories were still fresh, even though many participants
were already gone (Wilbur Seibert Underground Railroad Index). Most of the work in this book is on the operation of the Railroad in Ohio, though he does consider other states
as well. An article on Ohio history says that Seibert had a "penchant for statistics," (John P. Parker, Black Abolitionist Entrepreneur, 1827-1900), a charge that is quite true. But statistics
here work well, because they provide final proof of the effectiveness of the Railroad. Another source describes Seibert as the "great authority" on the Railroad, which would probably have delighted
him no end (Quarles, p. 145). Seibert also does something else that has largely been overlooked: he follows some of the slaves lives after they reach Canada, to see if
it really was a "promised land." While it wasnt quite the heaven they had hoped for, life for blacks in Canada was dramatically better than in the United States, and
many escaped slaves not only survived, but thrived (Lowke, 2003). The book itself is a very scholarly work, and such dramatic qualities as it possesses come from the subject
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