Ulysses Underground: the Unexplored Roots of U. S. Grant and the Underground Railroad - Softcover

Corum, G. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996206418 ISBN 13: 9780996206419

Publisher: RivetingHistory, 2015

Synopsis

Ulysses Grant was no obscure boy from an anonymous village. He grew up surrounded by blacks, whites, males, females, northerners, and southerners with a fierce commitment to slavery’s demise. Those who diagnosed slavery as fatal to America’s new democracy moved to Ohio decades before Ulysses' birth, in order to liberate the enslaved and save the nation. ULYSSES UNDERGROUND's ground breaking research unveils a 70-year antebellum effort to allow those of African descent the full benefits of a democracy. Their deep-laid plan for freedom later became known as the Underground Railroad. The challenge inundating Ulysses’ childhood and adolescence was how to end slavery without severing the United States. Corum explores the conflict between those pushing overtly and covertly to end slavery, as well as Ulysses’ place in the crux of it. Using dozens of letters, 65 illustrations and photographs, 13 maps, and 700 endnotes, ULYSSES UNDERGROUND unfurls fascinating American history. www.ulyssesunderground.com

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About the Author

Eighteen years ago, G. L. Corum began hunting for the earliest organized resistance to slavery; a few footnotes pointed to southwestern Ohio. Corum moved there, kept researching, and stumbled across the Grant family name. Accumulating more and more information on families committed to ending slavery, the Grant family connected in key places. Corum turned to focus on young Ulysses. A whole new dimension to America's 18th president and victorious Civil War general came into view.

Edition details

• Publisher: RivetingHistory
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996206418
• ISBN 13: 9780996206419
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342