The Underground Railroad Tree

Interesting Links

Suggested Sources for Continued Reflection and Study:

Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2015)

Hege Library, “The Woods and the Beginning of the Underground Railroad,” Guilford College (January 2019)

Omar Ali, “Into the Forest, Out of the Woods: Thoughts on Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom,” Politics for the People: History and Politics from an Independent Perspective (April 2015)

Fergus Bordewich, Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America (New York: HarperCollins, 2005)

Hope Jahren, Lab Girl (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016)

William J. Moore Gallery, “Voices of a City: Debating Liberty, 1800-1890,” Greensboro History Museum (2019)

Gareth Cook, “Do Plants Think?”, Scientific American (June 2012)

Levi Coffin, Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, The Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, (Robert Clarke & Co., 1880)

Sylviane A. Diouf, Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (New York University Press, 2014)