


| NEW by Norman Dann, the National Abolition Hall of Fame Richard Sheridan's primary sources Collection is part of the Continuing Education program at the University of Kansas. |

NEW by Deborah A. Lee, the stories of African Americans from Gettysburg to Monticello-- HALLOWED GROUND |
| From Slavery to Salvation; the autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry of the A.M.E. Church (1872) transcribed and documented by Jean Libby in 1994, University Press of Mississippi. Second edition, 2005, Allies for Freedom. The minister was an enslaved blacksmith born in Maryland ca. 1794. In freedom (after 1827) he was an African Methodist Episcopal minister, pastor to slave workers at iron furnaces in western Maryland. This is a primary source account of their conditions, of an unknown insurrection, and the attempt by John Brown to find this elder minister in 1859 because he was a known Underground Railroad operator. Documentation, maps, photos $18 order from Amazon |
| I Came as a Stranger The story of Tabor, by Bryan Prince Iowa abolitionist community |
| "Midnight" was the code name for Detroit "Dawn" was the settlement across the river in Canada Table of Contents by Jacqueline L. Tobin with Hettie Jones |
| Learn more about John Brown's family and their ties to Underground Railroad history at the Allies for Freedom publishers website photo of Dr. Herbert Aptheker at the grave of Mary Brown on May 9, 2000 by Jean Libby |
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