Ulysses Underground: the Unexplored Roots of U. S. Grant and the Underground Railroad, by G. L. Corum
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Ulysses Grant was no obscure boy from an anonymous village. He grew up surrounded by blacks, whites, males, females, northerners, and southerners with a fierce commitment to slavery’s demise. Those who diagnosed slavery as fatal to America’s new democracy moved to Ohio decades before Ulysses' birth, in order to liberate the enslaved and save the nation. ULYSSES UNDERGROUND's ground breaking research unveils a 70-year antebellum effort to allow those of African descent the full benefits of a democracy. Their deep-laid plan for freedom later became known as the Underground Railroad. The challenge inundating Ulysses’ childhood and adolescence was how to end slavery without severing the United States. Corum explores the conflict between those pushing overtly and covertly to end slavery, as well as Ulysses’ place in the crux of it. Using dozens of letters, 65 illustrations and photographs, 13 maps, and 700 endnotes, ULYSSES UNDERGROUND unfurls fascinating American history. www.ulyssesunderground.com
Ulysses Underground: the Unexplored Roots of U. S. Grant and the Underground Railroad, by G. L. Corum- Amazon Sales Rank: #1227301 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-13
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.61" h x .78" w x 6.69" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 342 pages
About the Author Eighteen years ago, G. L. Corum began hunting for the earliest organized resistance to slavery; a few footnotes pointed to southwestern Ohio. Corum moved there, kept researching, and stumbled across the Grant family name. Accumulating more and more information on families committed to ending slavery, the Grant family connected in key places. Corum turned to focus on young Ulysses. A whole new dimension to America's 18th president and victorious Civil War general came into view.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. How could we have missed it? By James M. A thorough review of all of the main characters in this part of the Underground Railroad and how Ulysses Grant was intimately connected to many of them. Good discussions of: -- why it was important that we know so little about these people, -- how some of their actions were designed to throw runaway slave hunters off the scent (and how that has thrown many historians off the scent as well) -- the internal struggle within the movement regarding best strategies, especially as the decades worn on with no end in sight to the institution of slavery itself despite thousands of successful passagesAn amazing amount of research is documented here. A historical novelist dream!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A must read By James O. Mayor Reading like an intriguing mystery story Ulysses Underground delves deeply into the influences on the early life of our 18th president. The essence of any man is formed in his young years by his family, his friends, and his environment.Many people think of Grant as a mediocre president with a drinking problem (it is difficult to image living through, letting alone being responsible for much of the lives lost in, the bloody Civil War without grasping for some crutch). That may be, but Corum casts no judgements on his adult life, instead focusing on his background, starting with the close ties his parents had with the anti-slavery activists of Southwestern Ohio and environs in the early 1800s. For one, Grant’s father was a tanner and was close friends with fellow tanner Owen Brown, father of John.Much speculation has been given to Grant’s personal attitude towards slavery. Corum sneaks open the door toward revealing the essence of Grant’s youthful years by casting a spotlight on his family, close friends, and neighbors, many of whom were activists involved directly with the Underground Railroad (UGRR). Was Grant himself involved?Although Ulysses Underground is liberally sprinkled with information on some well-known anti-slavery advocates of the times, e. g. William Lloyd Garrison, John Parker, and John Brown, Corum introduces us to many lesser known, and unknown, freedom advocates who were of equal and, in many cases, of greater influence. And the connections between Grant and his family and the anti-slavery clique populating the homesteads along a line leading North from the Ohio River towards freedom from slavery in Canada, the UGRR. Much speculation must be involved in recreating Grant’s youth due to the self-protective secrecy harbored by the activists and Grant’s own relative silence on this time, but Corum’s uses careful wording when making intelligent extrapolations in the exhaustive and well-documented research into the anti-slavery movement.This book is more than a chronicle of Grant’s early years. It is a vivid account of many individuals and families intimately linked to the UGRR and much of the conflicts among the slavery advocates, abolitionists, colonization proponents, and pro-slavers. It is also loaded with actual correspondence by those, on all sides of the spectrum, who made history; and exposes much of the violence and recriminations heaped upon the people of color and the abolitionists.Corum has done a marvelous job of recording Grant’s youth interwoven with the history of the UGRR in this eminently readable book. Ulysses Underground is a must read for history buffs and anyone with a passing interest in riveting history.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. "Hands on the Abolitionist Plow" By Barbara McCarty I am not a history buff, but Ulysses Underground has been one of my favorite recent reads. This book might be better titled "The Roots of the Underground railroad and Grant's Submersion in It." The author has discovered fascinating tidbits from letters, publications, diaries, family trees and much more and laced them into a coherent whole using the life of Hiram Ulysses Grant as the timeline.I learned volumes about the abolitionist movement and the politics, ethics and ingenuity of those who settled in Ohio to create a path to freedom for runaways. Corum's documentation of details leads me to be certain that Grant's private manner and determined spirit in support of the Union came naturally from the imperative environment of secrecy needed for his ancestors, family and friends to continue to work quietly for the abolition of slavery without splitting the nation.This is not a dry history, but a vividly written discovery of what it would have been like to have been living in this exciting time.
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