首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Underground Railroad in U. S. history was a loosely organized system for helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada or to areas of
Underground Railroad in U. S. history was a loosely organized system for helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada or to areas of
admin
2012-01-14
36
问题
Underground Railroad in U. S. history was a loosely organized system for helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada or to areas of safety in free states. It was run by local groups of Northern
abolitionists
, both white and free blacks. The metaphor first appeared in print in the early 1840s, and other railroad terminology was soon added. The escaping slaves were called passengers; the homes where they were sheltered, stations; and those who guided them, conductors. This nomenclature, along with the numerous, somewhat glorified, personal reminiscences written by conductors in the postwar period, created the impression that the Underground Railroad was a highly systematized, national, secret organization that accomplished prodigious feats in stealing slaves away from the South. In fact, most of the help given to fugitive slaves on their varied routes north was spontaneously offered and came not only from abolitionists or self-styled members of the Underground Railroad, but from anyone moved to sympathy by the plight of the runaway slave before his eyes. The major part played by free blacks, of both North and South, and by slaves on plantations along the way in helping fugitives escape to freedom was underestimated in nearly all early accounts of the railroad. Moreover, the resourcefulness and daring of the fleeing slaves themselves, who were usually helped only after the most dangerous part of their journey (i. e. , the Southern part) was over, were probably more important factors in the success of their escape than many conductors readily admitted. In some localities, like Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Wilmington, Del. , and Newport, Ind. (site of the activities of Levi Coffin ), energetic organizers did manage to loosely systematize the work; Quakers were particularly prominent as conductors, and among the free blacks the exploits of Harriet Tubman stand out. In all cases, however, it is extremely difficult to separate fact from legend, especially since relatively few enslaved blacks, probably no more than a few thousand a year between 1840 and 1860, escaped successfully. Far from being kept secret, details of escapes on the Underground Railropd were highly publicized and exaggerated in both the North and the South, although for different reasons. 1 he abolitionists used the Underground Railroad as a propaganda device to dramatize the evils of slavery; Southern slaveholders publicized it to illustrate Northern infidelity to the fugitive slave laws. The effect of this publicity, with its repeated tellings and exaggerations of slave escapes, was to create an Underground Railroad legend that correctly represented a humanitarian ideal of the pre-Civil War period, but that stayed far from reality. The pioneer study is W. H. Siebert, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898, repr. 1968); for an extensively revised account, see Larry Gara, The Liberty Line (1961). (450 words)
"Underground Railroad" here refers to______.
选项
A、a railroad running underground
B、subway in the United States
C、tubes in the United Kingdom
D、an organization stealing slaves away from the South
答案
D
解析
文章第一句就是对Underground Railroad的解释:它是一个在美国内战时期民间自发的帮助黑奴逃离南方的松散性组织。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/aU5YFFFM
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Unlovedandunwantedyoungstersmaybetemptedtorunawayfromhometoescapetheirproblems,______biggeronesincitiesplag
Atthefall2001SocialScienceHistoryAssociationconventioninChicago,theCrimeandJusticenetworksponsoredaforumonth
Cheaplabor(scarcitywas)inthecottonplantations(ofthe)AmericanSouth,and(slaves)became(standard)practice.
Superstitionisadifficultquestion.WecannotquitesaythatsuperstitioninBritainisdead.Itshistoryisboth【76】longand
Superstitionisadifficultquestion.WecannotquitesaythatsuperstitioninBritainisdead.Itshistoryisboth【76】longand
Superstitionisadifficultquestion.WecannotquitesaythatsuperstitioninBritainisdead.Itshistoryisboth【76】longand
随机试题
(2004)在一座总高度为15m的营业楼附近欲设一停车场,该楼耐火等级为二级,则该停车场距离此办公楼的防火间距至少为()。
《机械设备安装工程施工及验收通用规范》强制性条文规定:交给施工人员进行安装的机械设备,必须符合()标准的规定,并应有合格证明。
金融市场可以按照()分为发行市场、二级市场、第三市场和第四市场。
以下关于注册会计师对关联方及其交易的责任的观点中,不恰当的是()。
徽州四雕包括()。
常璩,字道将,四川崇州人,()著名史学家。
公平、诚实信用原则是我国民法的基本原则。()
Somepsychologistsmaintainthatmentalactssuchasthinkingarenotperformedinthebrainalone,butthatone’smusclesalso
我国56个民族种哪个民族在大陆没有集中居住地?
以下说法中正确的是
最新回复
(
0
)