For Freedom and Danger
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This week a WWF report warned that unbridled human consumption had destroyed much wildlife worldwide, wiping out 60 per cent of all fish, birds, amphibians, mammals and reptiles in the last half-century. Just two out of every 1, turtle hatchlings used to survive until adulthood, Phone Maw said. Skip to main content.
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Trawler nets, illegal dynamite fishing, sand dredging and marine pollution have had a devastating effect on turtle populations. Wednesday, 31 October, , 5: Thursday, 29 November, , Related topics Myanmar Environment. Southeast Asia Famous Yangon street where you can get a cockroach removed from your ear 16 Dec Poachers are the first danger, even at this conservation site dedicated to the marine reptiles.
Turtle eggs can sell for a dollar each, around 10 times the price of a chicken egg. This Week in Asia. You are signed up. We think you'd also like. Gay was a key Underground Railroad operative from the mids until the eve of the Civil War.
He was also the editor of the weekly newspaper the National Anti-Slavery Standard. When historian and Columbia University professor Eric Foner saw the document, he knew it was special: It listed the identities of escaped slaves, where they came from, who their owners were, how they escaped and who helped them on their way to the North. Foner's new book, Gateway to Freedom: According to Foner, the city was a crucial way station in the railroad's Northeast corridor, which brought fugitive slaves from the upper South through Philadelphia and on to upstate New York, New England and Canada.
To me, that's what genuine patriotism is. Eric Foner is a professor of history at Columbia University and has written several books about the Civil War era. We tend to think of fugitive slaves But Gay's records indicate that certainly by the s, when the transportation system was well-matured, many of these fugitives escaped in groups, not just alone. And they escaped using every mode of transportation you can imagine.
They stole carriages — horse-drawn carriages — from their owners, they went out on boats into [the] Chesapeake Bay, little canoes, and tried to go north.
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Large numbers of them came either on boat from Maryland or Virginia, places like that — they stowed away on boats, which were heading north, often assisted by black crew members — The railroad network was pretty complete by this point and quite a few of these fugitives managed to escape by train, which is a lot quicker than going through the woods. The records that [Gay] kept give a real sense of the ingenuity of many of these fugitives in figuring out many different ways to get away from the South.
Everybody left somebody behind, whether it was a child, parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, et cetera. Occasionally you did have family groups managing to escape together, but obviously escaping with a young child would be a rather difficult thing — it would make it much more likely you'd be captured.
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So this record and other documents of the time are full of rather heartbreaking stories of people who got out and then had to figure out, "Well is there any way I can get some of my relatives [out]. Most of the slaves who escape and who are mentioned in this record are young men — men in their 20s, basically. Everybody left somebody behind, whether it was a child, parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, et cetera.
Occasionally you did have family groups managing to escape together, but obviously escaping with a young child would be a rather difficult thing — it would make it much more likely you'd be captured. So this record and other documents of the time are full of rather heartbreaking stories of people who got out and then had to figure out, "Well is there any way I can get some of my relatives [out].
Most of the slaves who escape and who are mentioned in this record are young men — men in their 20s, basically. Maybe a quarter were women.
This is part of the human tragedy of slavery that even the act of escaping put people in an almost insoluble kind of dilemma. The whole South was kind of an armed camp.
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There were obviously police forces around, there were slave patrols. These were people whose job was to watch out on the roads for slaves who were off their farms or plantations for any reason. Then there was the general status of slaves, you might say. You could be stopped by any white person and be asked to show your papers. If a slave was on the road in some way they had to have "free papers" to prove they were a free person or some kind of pass from their owner giving them permission to go to a town or to visit another plantation or something like that.
The Underground Railroad was interracial. It's actually something to bear in mind today when racial tensions can be rather strong: This was an example of black and white people working together in a common cause to promote the cause of liberty. Frederick Douglass — who escaped from Maryland before the Underground Railroad was really operative in a strong way in — There were professional slave catchers, some of whom went to the North.
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