The Inner Passage by Virginia Mcgee Richards HARDBACK 9780262051712

MIT Press Ltd

A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping but which they used to escape slavery. The Intracoastal Waterway runs 3000 miles along the Eastern Seaboard between Massachusetts and Brownsville, Texas. The earliest canals on the Waterway were constructed by enslaved people living in the Charles Town colony in present-day South Carolina in the early 1700s. In a paradox of history that unfolds in The Inner Passage, for over a hundred years, enslaved Black people used these canals constructed for white plantation owners to travel southward to freedom in Spanish Florida. Virginia McGee Richards documents the lost narrative of the Inner Passage through 60 extraordinary photographs, detailed maps, and an\n\nThe Inner Passage\nAn Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked ;