Parallel Communities The Underground Railroad in South Jersey
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Full Title

Parallel Communities The Underground Railroad in South Jersey
Author(s)

Dennis C. Rizzo
Edition
ISBN

9781614234593, 9781596295421
Publisher

The History Press (ORIM)
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The true story of the small African American communities that formed in southern New Jersey during the era of slavery—includes photos. For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, many free blacks, runaway slaves, and even Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of South Jersey towns. While Lawnside and others continue to thrive today, others, like Marshalltown and Timbuctoo, now exist only in memory. In this discussion of these primarily African American communities, Dennis Rizzo validates their role in the preservation of tradition, definition of extended family, and creation of a social bond between diverse peoples; together they formed parallel communities based on, but independent of, the larger towns and villages familiar to residents of the Garden State.

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