Education Division Scholarship
Marooned a Western Frontier Dismal Swamp Narrative: From West to East Fredrick Douglas Station Masters and The underground Railroad insurgencies.
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Streaming Media
Publication Date
10-24-2024
Abstract
Fredrick Douglass Conductor of the Louisiana, Virginia, and Carolinas Dismal Swamps roads to freedom fights fiercely to keep the spread of slavery out of Kansas, California and Nebraska while fearing arrest and return to slavery with every train ride westward, securing escape routes from Kansas to Mexico. Samuel Mars his Station Master (revealed) dies and strikes a serious blow to Douglas’ Carolina Dismal Swamp route, but Fredrick still relies on Two Native Americans, Cherokee Nation, and a Secret Mullato conductor to continue the swamp missions. Murders and mayhem at Leavenworth, and a secret train schedule to freedom printed in the North Star. Angelina Grimké’s role as Douglas’ conductor in Quinter Kansas and the Indigenous station masters rebel against the fugitive slave law’s grip on freedom seekers. As “Bleeding Kansas” ensues, the Cherokee are threatened with enslavement as their scouts return from the West with Articles 8 & 9 from Congress.
Publication Title
Western History Association 64th Annual Conference
Recommended Citation
Hargett, Meya E., "Marooned a Western Frontier Dismal Swamp Narrative: From West to East Fredrick Douglas Station Masters and The underground Railroad insurgencies." (2024). Pepperdine University, Education Division Scholarship. Paper 376.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/gsepedu/376
