Sweet Freedom's Plains, Chapter 2: The Jumping-Off Places

Sweet Freedom's Plains

African Americans on the Overland Trails 1841-1869
By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, PhD.
For the National Park Service
National Trails Regions 6, 7, & 8

Introduction/Table of Contents

Chapter 2 Sections

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  Section 1

  Getting to the Jumping-Off Places

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  Section 2

  First Impressions

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  Section 3

  Cosmopolitan Crossroads

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  Section 4

  Doing Well and Doing Good

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  Section 5

  The Cost of Crossing

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  Section 6

  Negotiating the Racial Terrain