Underground Railroad Titles on Internet Bookselling
What is the Underground Railroad?
People and Places who helped
The Underground Railroad
was organized assistance to
fugitives from slavery to
free states and territories in
the U.S. After the Fugitive
Slave Law of 1850, such
flight and assistance was
criminal. The only safe
places were Canada and
Mexico, free from slavery
and prohibiting extradition.
was organized assistance to
fugitives from slavery to
free states and territories in
the U.S. After the Fugitive
Slave Law of 1850, such
flight and assistance was
criminal. The only safe
places were Canada and
Mexico, free from slavery
and prohibiting extradition.
A Biographical Dictionary
that is readable and
scholarly -- by Tom Calarco
John Brown's Family in
California -- learn more
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| 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 |
Mean to Be Free: John Brown's Black
Nation Campaign
Jean Libby's thesis at UC Berkeley
now on DVD
Nation Campaign
Jean Libby's thesis at UC Berkeley
now on DVD
LOCAL HISTORY and GENEAOLOGY
African Americans in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
by Deborah A. Lee, Ph.D.
African Americans in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
by Deborah A. Lee, Ph.D.
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