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Collection:
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7-day Books |
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Call Number:
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973.5 |
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Author:
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Gardner, Carol |
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Title:
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The divided north |
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Remainder of title:
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black and white families in the age of slavery / |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"Reuben Ruby and Nathaniel Gordon II were born eleven months apart in 1798 and 1799 and spent much of their boyhoods roaming the noisy, bustling waterfront of Portland, Maine. They lived just blocks from one another, attended school together, and went to the same church with their families. But they were worlds apart, separated by family, culture, and race. Reuben Ruby was Black and Nathaniel Gordon was white. The Rubys became prominent antislavery activists, equal rights advocates, and operatives on the Underground Railroad. Their neighbors, the Gordons, became well-to-do ship masters, owners, and merchants: among them, the most notorious American slave ship captain of the century, Nathaniel Gordon III. As activists, sea captains, businessmen, prospectors, and politicians, members of these two families traveled to New York, California, Texas, Louisiana, Africa, Haiti, and Brazil, where their experiences were shaped by their racial identities. At home in the "Free North," they faced social and political divisions nearly as sharp as those they encountered elsewhere. To understand the issues that divided nineteenth-century America-and, in many ways, still divide the nation-few have looked to the far North. In this compelling narrative history and intimate dual-family biography, Carol Gardner traces the Rubys and Gordons as they navigate the turbulent 1800s. As families and individuals, they demonstrate that the North was a critical proving ground for American notions of freedom and equality, as telling as any town, plantation, or battlefield in the South. Their experiences help reveal what it meant to live in a free state during the age of slavery, with all the promise, disappointment, irony, and hope that the notion entailed"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781685751579 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781685751562 |
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(epub) |
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(paperback) |
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(ebook) |
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(hardcover) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9781625348746 |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9781625348753 |
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System control number:
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24042544 |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us-me |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us--- |
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Classification number:
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E449 |
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Edition number:
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23/eng/20250221 |
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Classification number:
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973.5 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1954- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Carol Gardner. |
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Title proper/short title:
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Black and white families in the age of slavery |
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Place of publication:
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Boston ,Mass |
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Name of publisher:
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University of Massachusetts Press |
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Date of publication:
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2025 |
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Projected publication date:
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2504 |
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Amherst : |
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University of Massachusetts Press, |
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2025. |
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Extent:
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195 pages |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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computer |
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rdacarrier |
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online resource |
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cr |
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Series statement:
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Black New England |
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Bibliography, etc. note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Formatted contents note:
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Prologue: Family portraits in black and white -- Free state -- Free trade -- Towns divided -- Metropolis of liberty -- Gold rush -- Fugitives -- Freebooters -- The War Within the States -- Carpetbaggers and Exodusters -- Up in smoke -- Family fortunes -- Epilogue: Lost and found. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B&T 8/8/25 |
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Purchase price:
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30.00 |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Personal name:
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Gordon, Nathaniel |
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Personal name:
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Ruby, Reuben, |
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Personal name:
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Gordon, Nathaniel, |
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Personal name:
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Ruby family. |
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Personal name:
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Gordon family. |
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Titles and other words associated with a name:
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II, |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1799-1849. |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1798-1878 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1826-1862 |
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General subdivision:
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Family. |
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Subject:
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Antislavery movements |
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Subject:
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African American abolitionists |
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Subject:
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Sea captains |
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Subject:
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Slave traders |
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Subject:
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Portland,Maine |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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Chronological subdivision:
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19th century. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Geographic name:
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Portland (Me.) |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Biographies. |
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Main entry heading:
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Gardner, Carol, 1954- |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2025 |
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Display text:
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Print version: |
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Title:
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Divided north |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2024059219 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781625348746 |
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acquire |
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ecip ebook |
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policy default |
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ecip ebook 2025-02-25 |
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LCAP batch update 2025-06-02-04:00: LCAPM-893 |
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LC online resource |
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2025-02-25 |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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Due Back |
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54719 |
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checked out |
2025-08-29 11:25:57 |
2025-09-05 |
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