{"product_id":"the-underground-freedoms-road-and-other-upstate-tales-9","title":"The Underground (Freedom's Road) and Other Upstate Tales","description":"vi, [4], 181, [1] pp. Includes eight black-and-white photographic plates. \"Hidden in a wooden box on a jolting wagon, a Negro mother and her young daughter rode for 22 days an 22 nights all the long way from Washington, D.C. to Warsaw. A Naples undertaker carried fugitive slaves in his hearses, sometimes concealing them in coffins. When his mother, a tiny woman, became ill on their flight to freedom, her son put her in a bag which he carried for miles over his shoulder. ...the story of the secret network which spirited thousands of runaway slaves to Canada and freedom throughout Central-Western New York before the Civil War.\" Arch Merrill (August 5, 1894 - July 15, 1974) was a newspaper reporter for the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle from 1923 to the late 1960s. He was a prolific writer, best known for his articles in the Sunday paper on history and folklore of the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes of upstate New York.","brand":"American Book - Stratford Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42277683298374,"sku":"2346854","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2346854.jpg?v=1731381889","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-underground-freedoms-road-and-other-upstate-tales-9","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}