Going underground : race, space, and the subterranean in the nineteenth-century United States /

"First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now-familiar idea while se...

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Main Author: Cohen, Lara Langer (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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505 0 |a A Basement Shut Off and Forgotten during the Nineteenth Century -- The "Blackness of Darkness" in Mammoth Cave -- Early Black Radical Undergrounds -- The Underground Railroad's Undergrounds -- The Depths of Astonishment: City Mysteries and Subterranean Unknowability -- "To drop beneath the floors of the outer world": Paschal Beverly Randolph's Occult Undergrounds -- Subterranean Fire: Anarchist Visions of the Underground -- Staying Underground. 
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