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Subject: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AWAY TO CANADA, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm on my way to canada
Last Line: I will remember thee.
Subject(s): Slavery; Underground Railroad; Serfs


RUNAGATE RUNAGATE, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
Subject(s): Slavery; Underground Railroad; Serfs


RUNAGATE RUNAGATE, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
Last Line: Come ride-a my train %mean mean mean to be free
Subject(s): Slavery; Underground Railroad


SOUTHERN ROAD, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There the black river, boundary to hell
Last Line: I have to love you, though they sweep me far. %and I set forth upon the southern road
Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Southern States; Underground Railroad


THE SOUTHERN ROAD, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There the black river, boundary to hell
Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Southern States; Underground Railroad; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.)