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Black History of Southwestern Ontario
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Women of Buxton
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Buxton Bell
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Introduction To Elgin
The Elgin settlement, also known as Buxton, was Uie last of four organized black settlements to
come into existence in Canada. Hie black population of Canada West and Chatham was already
high because of the area’s proximity to the United States of America. The land was purchased by
the Elgin Association through the Presbyterian Synod for the purpose of creating a settlement.
The land lay 12 miles south of Chatham. When news of the Elgin settlement spread, white
settlers became worried, and attempted to block its development with a petition. Regardless of
sentiment, plans for the settlement went ahead and many of Buxton's settlers feared for the life of
William King due to the resistance of whites.
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Founder of the Elgin Settlement,
Rev. William King established a
community that still exists today.
This community is considered by
many as one of the only
settlements began as a haven for
Blacks escaping slavery to have
been a success. Much of the
credit for the success of the
settlement mast be given to Rev.
William King and his thoughtful
development of this community.
Vilisam King and his fifteen former slaves arrived at the land, which was bough
already waiting and others began to arrive soon afterwards. The first settler, Isaac Rile
seU*emcnl before King even arrived. Mostly all adults living in the settlement had beer
was ma<k °f 9 000 acres of land, 6 miles in lengtli, 3 in width situated between the Gr<
Erie. The land was divided into farms of 50 acres each. Certain standards had to be ma
>ro(>cny conditions. I -and had to be purchased by the settlers at the price of!
.......tn ten equal installments with 6% interest Ten years was allowed for the settlsettlers would have had a deed in possession by then. The settlers were given no monej
tools; the only thing given was protection and advice.
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Rules for the Elgin Settlement:
1. No liquor allowed on the settlement
2. Land could only be sold to blacks and had to remain in their
hands for ten years
3. I-ind had to be purchased not leased
4 Each house had to be built at least 24x18x12 feet with a
porch across the front
5. Each house had to be built 33 feet from the road, with a
picket fence and flower garden in front; prizes were given for
the most attractive home (made from Uie logs cut down from
the thick bush surrounding the area)
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Reasons for the strict rules:
William King wanted a stable settlement for the black settlers. By requiring the inhabitants to pay for their own
property and possessions he hoped to instill a sense of pride in the community. The settlers also had to live on the
land for ten years, which made many stay a reasonable length of time in Buxton. The rules paid off as Buxton has
been hailed the only successful black settlement in Canada.
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Reverend William King and a young assistant, John Rennie, took young black children (and two white children who attended the:
school level and on to the secondary level. Those with the ability were encouraged to attend college or post secondary education. 1
many white settlers asked to close their school and attend the King school, this made one of the first integrated schools in North Ar
were studied there. Mary Ann Shadd's parents and a number of her brothers and sisters moved just outside of the Buxton limits.
1851
A new course, Greek, was added to school classes.
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The day school had 78 on the roll, 26 were children of white parents. King was chiefly paid by the Home Mission Committee of tl
Canada, which always bore testimony against the evils of slavery. By August 1st, 1852 there were 400 settlers. Twenty-five Tamil:
together, furthering the community atmosphere. Within the district there were about 100 families. Of the 350 acres of land cleared
under crop. The land had been adapted to grow com, tobacco and hemp. 'The rule of no alcohol was working well as there are no c
court of arbitration was set up to encourage peace among the settlers.
1853
130 families had settled on Elgin Association land. There were a total of 520. 500 acres had been cleared and were under fence; 1:
acres were planted with com, 60 acres with wheat, 29 with oats and 90 with various others. There were 112 students now enrolled
1854
More houses were built in the settlement, one person even constructed a brick home. There were approximately 150 families settle
acres were cleared and under fence, 174 were cut down and ready for clearing. 334 acres were planted with com, 95 with wheat, 4
assorted crops. The day school had 147 students registered.
1855
827 acres were under fence, 216 have been chopped down. There is a considerable amount of tobacco being farmed. The school n<
mill and market are completed on July 4th, 1855.
1856
By 1856 there were close to 800 people living in the Elgin Settlement. The settlement now had a school and mission's church. The
after the Earl of Buxton (British Parliament) who passed the Emancipation Act of 1833. During 1856 the Elgin settlement had a p
hotel, a blacksmith, a carpenter, shoe shops, factories and a savings bank. Six men had finished their education at King's school.
1857
Two schools had been doing well, one male and one female, bringing the total student population to
140.
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Reverend William King
William King was bom on November 11th, 1812 in Ireland. He attended the Glascow University
where he was influenced by social reforms and the work of the famous British abolitionist, Sir Thomas
Foxwell Buxton, hi 1834 William King emigrated with his parents to North America. The family
settled on a land. Ohio farm and then moved to South Jackson Louisiana. Here he became Rector of
Matthew's Academy which was a private school for children of wealthy plantation owners. Eventually
William King married Mary Pharos and she brought four slaves. King was totally opposed to any such
idea and publicly protested slavery.
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Buxton schools were sought
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From the very beginning King was against slavery. After his wife, son and museum's ambitions for the 1
daughter all died, King returned to Scotland where he continued his
school hoase to its original si
schooling to become a minister and missionary. The Presbyterian Church
of Scotland posted him to do missionary work in Canada. In 1846 King arrived in Canada when he le.
King immediately returned to Louisiana where he inherited his wife's property and retrieved his slaves
back in Canada in 1848 with 14 black slaves and 4 year old Solomon, the son of one of the slaves. Th
King's black community in November of 1849. King did marry again while he lived on the Elgin Setll
(who was white) was known to be a bit eccentric. She supposedly was unable to have children of her c
on the street away from their parents. However she was a musician and taught music at the settlement,
character based on Reverend William King is portrayed in Harriet Beacher Stowe's book - Dred, A Tt
Isaac Riley
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his children to have a good education.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was originally from Pennsylvanit
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liberty. But most of all I came to Buxton so my c
education." One of his daughters had been doing
Ohio. She had been advancing quickly through tire levels and was receiving her education with ladies. Her mother went through a
was well dressed and groomed when she went to school also. The school trustees, however, passed a rule that did not allow black <
Her father became upset and visited the trustees but there was nothing he could do about the rule. The teacher contacted Henry Jol
his daughter and that the students had voted in class that she should stay but the vote had already been passed. Johnson was very ii
Settlement. He told historian Benjamin Drew in 1856 that the people were prosperous and admired tire fact that they didn't accept
E. A. Richardson BATE. Church
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Clarissa Bristow Johnston
Clarissa Bristow Johnston worked for a master and mistress in Louisiana, At age 12 she escaped. She went to the Elgin Settlement
Abraham Johnston of the Christiana Riots fame. She and her husband had 11 children, 9 of which died. Her husband also died yoi
how she would go out to bury one child and by the time she returned, another would have passed away. Through all of this she wa
farm. Hie farm is still on the same property with the same family today in Buxton.
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Dr. Anderson Abbott
Dr. Abbott was educated in the Elgin settlement as one of William King's first 6 graduates. He studied medicine at the University <
of the Medical Board of Upper Canada in 1861. In 1863 he served as a surgeon in the United States Army under Dr. Augusta. Lai
at the Washington Hospital until he resigned in April 1866.
He returned to Canada and married Mary Ann Casey. They set up residence on Park St. in Chatham. Dr. Abbott began
to practice medicine from the Hunton Block on William Street In Chatham, Dr. Abbott was president of Wilberlorce
Educational Institute from 1873-1880. He was the associate editor of the Missionary' Messenger, published by the
British Methodist Episcopal Church and president of the Chatham Literary and Debating Society. During the year of
1878 he was President of Chatham's Medical Society. He was also one of the first Coroners for Kent County. Doctor
Abbott died in December, 1913.
James Rapier
James Rapier was one of William King’s first 6 graduates. He attended Knox College in Toronto and later came back
to Buxton to teach at the SS #13. After the American Civil War he returned to Alabama where he became a slate
representative.
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Alfred Laffcrty
Alfred Lafferty was one of the first 6 graduates from the Elgin School, SS #13. Alfred Laffcrty graduated from the
University of Toronto's mathematics program. In Chatham Laffcrty held the post of principal of the Wilberforcc
Educational Institute from 1875-1882. He was an active member of tlie Literary Society and a lodge. In 1886 he
became a lawyer in Chatham.
Thomas Stringer
Thomas was one of the first six graduates of Rev. King's school in Buxton. He graduated as an adult student. Some of
his accomplishments included founding the BME (British Methodist Episcopal) Churches in Chatham and Buxton. He
returned to Mississippi and became an orator there after the Civil War in the USA. The Most Worshipful Stringer
Grand Lodge in Mississippi was named after him.
Richard Johnson
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instead of blushing to acknowledge himself a friend of imme
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Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, with honorable pride re
cord their testimony in favor of it before the nation. This
done, and the light and glory of this nation will surpass any
nation under heaven.
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«onni h® "?man.and her ch''dren freedom on the
ground of he alleged insanity of her master at the time of hie
gimng her the deed. And not having the means of contesting
fac Jfn rUp°n^fl ^temonts of my brothers and friends for the
neariv wXrd»ndmr th® 1° {reedom- % grand mother was
? ^hltJ and.1 th,nk I possess “enough of the Anglo
Saxon blood to give me a deep and thorough abhorrence8of
oppression.
At any .rate, I am so much in love with freedomsmce coming into possession of it, that for all tl.e weald,
Slaveholding States I would not exchange my
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Oulhc deiuh01' Wall, I passed into the hand's of* James
Met addon, a larmcr, an administrator of the estate of Wall,
and soon after was “hired out” io Stephen Claypoolc. This
mai> had a demand against McFadden of $1100, and claimed
me as his property, by virtue of that demand. After keeping
me four years, at the business of turnpiking, I was swapped
off, with a Mr. Kerns, for another slave, “ Tom,” and set at
work digging stumps—or as I term it, “stump-piking.” In
a few months the parties reversed the bargain, and mvself and
Aom reverted to our former owners: and in a little time I was
sold or made over like a kind of “ heir-loom,” to John Claypoolc, and then to Perry Claypoole. The latter individual was
a tobacco grower, and farmer. Unlike a large proportion of
Slaveholders, this individual superintended his own plantation
andiabored with his own hands. He had a girl named Cjarila, whom he required to work in the field with me, compelling
us like cattle to draw the cultivating plow through the furrow.
I could have borne it, myself, but it was hard xoork to pull
the plow with a poor female yoke-fellow, for although my mas
ter seemed to regard a female slave little better than a beast
nature taught me to consider the impropriety of her treatment!
and I could not endure it.
Whatever men may think of us, we are not destitute of the
feelings of men.
In July, Claypooie told us, we must cultivate five hotheads
of Tobacco for our summer’s work. Added to this, was the
ordcFfor us to “get married,” according to Slavery—or, in
other words, to enrich his plantation by a family of youn<r
slaves. The alternative of this was, to be sold to a slave trader'
who was then lu the vicinity making up a gang.for. a more
southern raarkot. “ This information” I did not like,—more
especially, as I had often been promised my freedom in a few
years if I would work faithfully ; and I resolved,, whenever an
opportunity should offer, and I could see my way clear to at
tempt a shorter and mure certain route to freedom than to
await the fulfilment of a Slaveholder's promise j for in rela
tion to the emancipation of a slave, their promises are always
forgotten before they get cold. And, if I could have any
confidence in such promises, it would have inspired me with
energy to almost any amount of labor, for I neyer desired any
thing more ardently, nor was willing to makd so groat a sac
rifice for any thing else as my liberty.” And I here bog leave
OF ANDREW JACKSON.
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to say, that although I have often heard northern people state
that the slaves did “ not want their freedom,” yet I never saw
one who would not endure twice what I passed through, and
more, if they could but be sure of liberty at the last. It is the
theme of almost every meeting among them, and one of the
most happy events whenever one escapes. And it is a very
rare thing that one slave ever becomes informer against his
brother who intends to take the long walk. When one is ready
thefrapowerSe Wb° r6main wil1 often helP him in every way in
CHAPTER II.
“After firmly resolving to runaway from my master,”
the next thing was to learn where to go, and how to get
away. I heard a great many things about the Northern
States and some things not at all favorable to my welfare,
d,V»Ttjlf I,1Sr°U d SUCCee,f 1D maki"g my escape. I was told
that the “free niggers” were often half starved, and not
respected any more, if as much, as they were in the Slaw'
States, But I made up my mind that if I could learn the
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opportunity occurred forme to
obtain the information I needed from a gentleman who had
been north, and described the route through Kentucky,
Ohio, Illinois, &c. Then the thing was to get started__
to get away from the neighborhood without detection. I
resolved to make the attempt,
rWh0Stalur^y n%ht> early in August, I gathered my
cloihes together, and after selecting the beat, which were
not very good, I started off in the direction of a piece of
woods, and there tore up those I desired least, and threw
them down, besmeared with blood which I obtained to eive
1 •??1JhC4a-PPearJanC® ofThaving been torn from me by a
wild bfeast, in order that I might prevent any one from purbuing me until I could escape beyond their reach.
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thought I would go there on ray way, too, and get a certificatc of ray freedom, under pretence of trying to obtain my
liberty by process of law. The Clerk replied to my re
quest only by cursing me, and told me to go back and be
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Narrative and Writing of Andrew Jackson of Kentucky
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Photocopy of the Narrative and Writings of Andrew Jackson of Kentucky. Includes handwritten notes about how this story differs from other tellings of a slave who came to Deerfield and notes that this is probably a different Andrew Jackson.
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Jackson, Andrew
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Daily and Weekly Star Office
Mnemosyne Publishing Company
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1847
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English
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DPL.0013.025
Andrew Jackson
Bloomington Illinois
Bowling Green Circuit Kentucky
Bowling Green Kentucky
Chicago Illinois
Clarilda
Clerk's Office
Emancipation
Freedom
George Wall
Illinois
James mcFadden
Jason Isabel
John Claypoole
John Quincy Adams
Kentucky
Liberty
Marie Ward Reichelt
Methodist Church
Mississippi
Mr. Kerns
Northern States
Ohio
Perry Claypoole
Prairieville Wisconsin
Slave States
Slaveholding States
Slavery
Stephen Claypoole
Stump Piking
Thomas Jefferson
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in his hand. Young men and women on benches*, holding
books or manuscripts. Girls simper and giggle,
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desk is a high and rather crude stand)
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CHORUS;
(Sing "Mill May"
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(Gives musical directions, and
points at individuals who will sing the different
parts)
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Very good,
"Lorelei"
Very good indeed.
How let us try the
(Sing;the "Lorelei")
SINGING MASTER;
Mary;
Mary, I would like to hear you sing "Robin Adair,"
(Sings "Robin Adair" as a solo.)
SINGING MASTER:
Quartette:
(Sing "Seeing Hellie Home
SINGING MASTER:
CHORUS:
You young men in the back seat1*
"Seeing He Hie Home
How about trying
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It is getting late • We will close by singing that
good old song of our fathers "Ein Feste Burg."
"iSing "A Mighty Fortress is Our God.")
SINGING MASTER:
You have all shown much improvement, I wish to
commend you for your application and industry.
The human voice is one of the greatest of C-od1 s
gifts to mankind, and should be cultivated* We
will meet again two weeks from tonight, Be sure to
bring your music *
(Singing master bows, and exits R, Boys and girls pair
off, giggling and chatting as they exit R)
(CURTAIN)
SCENE IX
The Underground Railroad
Time: An autumn night in 1858
Place: Kitchen of the Lorenz Ott home, west of Deerfield,
Harrator;
Schoolhouses built, church organizations begun, and the
physical and social needs of the families cared for,
the early citizens of Deerfield.were free to turn their
thoughts to the building of thS 'village , General stores
were established at the Corners, first Cole's, then Hoyt's
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on foot, by wagon, or walked to Port Clinton to take the
Chicago and Northwestern train. From.the building of the
village, attention turned to the affairs of the nation*
Many were the arguments and the discussions around the
red hot stove at the general store - which was the scene
of old time oratory. Farmers and local politicians
scanned the newspapers, and read aloud the speeches of
Lincoln and Douglas* The burning questions of slavery,
state rights, and the preservation of the Union held the
attention of all*
Secretly, some of the citizens of our community en
gaged in helping fugitive slaves to reach places of secur
ity in the free states and in Canada, The explanation of
the lack of information which is available concerning the
so-called Underground Railroad is to be found.in the.se
crecy in which it was enshrouded. The participants in
underground operations were quiet people, and their special
work was to harbor fugitives and help them toward freedom.
The runaways were hidden in churches, barns, and garrets,
provided with rest add refreshments, and usually after a day
or more conveyed in the night to the house of . the next
friend, 'One of the abolitionists who is credited with as
sisting in the escape of fugitives was Lyman Wilmot,
whose name has figured so much in the upbuilding of the
community - and in the annals of our town we have the
story of one slave - Andrew Jackson - who sought refuge
in the homes of Wilmot and Lorenz Ott, his neighbor, and
remained there for some time, until he could safely be
conveyed northward.
(It is after dark, in the kitchen of the Ott home,
Lorenz Ott is reading a newspaper besides the kerosene
lamp. The mother, and daughter Sarah, age 16, are
sewing, and Samuel, age 14, and Eli, 12, are playing
A signal is heard out-of-doors - a.
checkers .
" shrill tremolo like that of an owl, This is followed
hy three distinct, hut subdued knocks, Mother and
father raise heads, listen intently, hut no one moves)
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Who's there?
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children draw near, watching fearfully. Wilmot
enters, pulling in a black man, quickly and closing door.
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He has just arrived, after a long hard trip, I fear my
house is being watched, and under cover of darkness I
brought him across the field, I think he needs rest and foo^.
Poor fellow, he was chattering with cold when he arrived.
Will you take care of him?
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Yes, you know you can depend on me, Wilmot,
(Wilmot leaves, and the negro is welcomed in a
sincere hut subdued manner. The mother hurries to
set food before him, assisted by the daughter. Boys
and father gather around the colored man, asking ques
tions)
OTT;
SLAVE:
What is your name?
Andrew Jackson, massa..
OTT:
Where have you come from?
SLAVE:
I come from Mississip*, massa?
SAMUEL:
Jiminy, that's a long way1.
SLAVE:
It take weeks and weeks, massa, and I was scairt de
bloodhoun's dey get me again.
SAMUEL:
SLAVE:
LORENZ OTT:
SLAVE:
Again?
Hoy/ long did it take?
Did they ever send the bloodhouses after you?
Yaas s'r, one time when I run away, de dawgs dey track
me, but dis time a man he tell me de sun rise in
de eas* and set in de wes' and if I go nawth, it get
colder, and if I go south it get wamer, and dat all I
know, and he ah I am1.
How did you escape?
(Dramatically)
My massa, he a kin* man, but he sol me
down de ribbah, so I tuk off in de night, I dim out of
de window in de dawk* I 'scaped cross de ribbah, and Lor*
a massa, it take a powahful long time to come nawth, it s
shuah do. I hid in de confields in de day, and I eat
de co'n ffom de stalks, and I trabbel at night , Dey tell
me bout de undergroun railroad in place dey call ^ontiac,
den I stay all night at a doctah's house deah, I trab
bel on to a preachah's house in a town dey done call
Ottawa, and from deah to Massa Ca'pentah's house in the
big city. Mass Gapentah, he good man, and done brought me
to Massa Wilmot's house. Somebody want to stop us, but
Massa. Ca'pentah he bring down de hosswhup on do-ese
bosses backs, and lickety-cut, we pass 'em right up*
(Laughs heartily, and boys laugh-with him)
(Boys gather round him with books and slates, Sarah
sews, listening to their talk) Mr. and Mrs, Ott
converse in the foreground, about place to hide
Jackson, and best manner in which he can be passed on
to the next "station" on his
north)
MRS. OTT:
OTT:
Would it be safe for him to go on in a day or two?
I don't see how it will be possible • You heard what
Wilmot said* I am afraid we shall have to keep him
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MRS. OTT:
Do you think they are really "nigger catchers?11
OTT:
I am not sure , Their actions seem suspicious, They
were in Hoyt's store this morning, sitting around the
stove with the other men, and asked many questions. They
pretend to he here on business, but no one knows what
their business is.
MRS, OTT:
Isn't there some way that he can be passed on safely?
OTT:
I could hide him under a wagon load of sacks of bran,
as 7/ilmot did the last one, but I think that is not
necessary. Once in the woods along the river, they can
never get him, unless they have bloodhounds, and that
they do not have , Y/hen he is fed and rested, I will
take him through the woods to the river, on some dark
night when the moon is under, and direct him to the
next 11 station," He can follow the river for miles,
and easily reach there before morning,
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how can people live like that? Maybe, Lorenz, if you
have not too much to do you can make him a new suit
before he goes. He can sleep in the attic, and perhaps
help a little with the work until then, Hoy/, I must go
and see if little Clara has been awakened by all this
noise, and get a bed ready for him,
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forward)
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know his letters, and he wants to learn.
here long enough, can't'I teach him? He
B and C already. And, father, he says he
SARAH:
Oh, father, I wish we could hear him singt I do so
love to hear darky singing. Please ask him, father*,
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(Smiling) He can 3ing, can he? Perhaps he can pay
for his keep that way. Let's hear you sing, Andrew,.
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Deerfield Centennial Pageant
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Photocopy of pages from the Deerfield Cenntenial Pageant script that mentions Andrew Jackson, the runaway slave who supposedly stayed in Deerfield.
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Deerfield Centennial Commission
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1935
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Kottrasch Brothers
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Becker, Eugene
Engstrom, George
Knaak, Theodore J.
Rommel, Mrs. J.
Ziesing, August
McGarvie Brothers
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Anti-Slavery Activities
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Cole's General Store
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Deerfield Centennial Pageant Scene IX: The Underground Railroad
Deerfield Illinois
E.R. Seese
Eli Ott
Eugene Becker
Fredericka Koebelin
Fugitive Slave Acts
George Engstrom
Hoyt's General Store
J.P. O'Connell
Jacob Ott
John J. Welch
Knecht's Wagon and Blacksmith Shop
Kottrasch Brothers
Lorenz Ott
Lyman Wilmot
McGarvie Brothers
Mississippi
Mrs. J. Rommel
Offensive Language
Port Clinton
Preservation of the Union
R.C. Vilas
Racist Language
Royal Neighbors
Samuel Ott
Sarah Ott
Slavery
Standard Oil Company
States Rights
Stephen Douglas
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Theodore J. Knaak
Tupper's Grist Mill
Underground Railroad
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This collection consists of records related to the Deerfield Public Library's research into whether or not the Wilmot house could be proved to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Wright and Potter
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Turner, Glennette Tilley.
The underground railroad in Illinois / by Glennette Tilley
Turner ; introduction by Juliet E.K. Ualker.
1st ed.
Glen Ellyn, IL : Neuman Educational Publishing, 2001.
xix, 285 p.
ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-266) and index.
1) Underground railroad — Illinois.
2) Slavery — United States.
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(http://core.nasa.gov);
. “The Underground Railroad in Illinois” and “Trail Through DuPage County”
(JMDoggett@aol.com); keyword “Underground Railroad ;
. “The Underground Railroad” produced by and available from The History Channel
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Sand. Laura S. A WOMAN'S LIFE WORK: LABORS AND EXPERIENCES OF LAURA S. HAV1LAND. Salem, NH: 1881. (Reprint 1984)
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Howard, Elizabeth. NORTH WINDS BLOW FREE. New York: W. Morrow. 1949.
Philo Carpenter operated Under
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Church. His home in Chicago was the
UGRR station where Israel Blodgett of
Downers Grove and John Coe of
Hinsdale took passengers. Carpenter's
brother was married to the sister of
Julius Warren, founder of Warrenville.
Meadowcroft, Enid La Monte. BY SECRET RAILWAY. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co 1948 n™ oslave boy Bed 1860 to the home of David Morgan in Chicago He is betrayed by a boarder who ^H
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McMeekin. Isabella. JOURNEY CAKE. New YorkMessner. 1942. In 1794 Juba, a free woman of color
takes six motherless white children into Kentucky where
their father has gone to settle.
Sterling, Dorothy. CAPTAIN OF THE PLANTER: THE
STORY OF ROBERT SMALLS. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1958. Biography of Robert Smalls, who was bom a slave, and during the Civil War
piloted a captured Confederate boat past the guns of Fort Sumter and delivered it to the Union
forces. Later he became a leader of his people and was sent to Congress. He suffered humiliation
during Reconstruction because he refused to compromise his principles.
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London: New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. A lit
tle slave boy tries many jobs while selecting his future
trade.
FREEDOM TRAIN: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Scholastic Book Services,
1954. A biography of Harriet Tubman as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Wriston, Hildreth Tyler. SUSAN’S SECRET. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1957.
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1989) A biography of Amos Fortune, an eighteenth-century African prince. After being captured
by slave traders, he was brought to Massachusetts where he remained a slave until he was able to
buy his freedom at sixty years old.
L.C. Paine Freerer was a prominent
lawyer who settled in Chicago in 1836
and died in Wheaton in 1878. He made
Underground Railroad passengers and
touring black antislavery speakers wel
come in his home. He encountered per
sonal danger when he served armed
court officials with legal warrants. On
one occasion he and a party on horse
back chased a party of slave catchers
nearly across the state of Illinois in an
attempt to free an enslaved man, but
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adventures which befall a young man during the Revolutionary War. (Reprint 1967)
Buckmaster, Henrietta. LET MY PEOPLE GO: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
AND THE GROWTH OF THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT. New York: Harper. 1941.
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1954. Tiger Lily is a magical place where a chain of fantastic
events is set off by the arrival of a train on which there are
four children two animals, and a magician train porter.
Steinman, Beatrice. THIS RAILROAD DISAPPEARS. New
York: F. Watts, 1958. Thirteen -year-old Seth convinces
his parents and neighborhood abolitionists that he can be
trusted as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Crowell.
1955. Biography emphasizing the character and personality
of Harriet Tubman, whose unshakable faith led her to guide
hundreds of slaves to freedom by the Underground Railroad.
Siebert, Wilbur Henry. THE MYSTERIES OF OHIO’S
UNDERGROUND RAILROADS. Columbus: Long's
College Book Co. 1951.
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Curtis, Anna Louis. STORIES OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: The Island
Workshop Press Co-op, 1941.
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Bontemps. Arna. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: SLAVE
FIGHTERS, FREEMAN. New York: Knopf, 1959. A
biography of the runaway slave who devoted his life to
the abolition of slavery and the fight for Black rights.
Breyfogle, William x. MAKE FREE: THE STORY OF
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Philadelphia:
Lippincott, 1958.
Buckmaster, Henrietta. FLIGHT TO FREEDOM: THE
STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New
York: Crowell, 1958. A history of the founding and opera
tion of the Underground Railroad with background mate
rial on slavery, the growth of the abolition movement in
spite of opposition in the North. The leaders of both
races and the role of the African American after the Civil
War includes many accounts of the experiences of escap-
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1968. Born a slave but determined to be free, Harriet Tubman ran away from slavery and returned
ma ny times to free her enslaved people.
Fisher, Aileen Lucia. A LANTERN IN THE WINDOW.
New York: T. Nelson. 1957. Twelve-year-old Peter goes to
live with his Quaker uncle whose farm on the bank of the
Ohio River gives him a view of the steamboats he loves
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friendship between two boys one a white teenage otphan bound out on a canalboat and the other a
Bhck deckhand. The deckhand protects the otphan front the cruelty of the captatn. and the boy tn
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New York: Lothrop. 1959. A twelve-year-old white boy and
his uncle, The Freedom Man. help Daniel a slave boy and
his family obtain their freedom when they meet on a jour
ney to Kansas.
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Bacmeister. Rhoda. W. VOICES EN THE NIGHT.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs, 1965. New England and an
Underground Railroad station are the background for this
story. When Jeanie’s widowed mother is forced to break
up her family because she cannot take care of them, Jeanie
is sent to live with the Aldens, who secretly operate a station.
Bradford. Sarah. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE MOSES OF
HER PEOPLE. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel. 1961. A story of
Harriet Tubman, the illiterate escaped slave who made
nineteen journeys deep into the South to escort over 300
slaves to freedom. The book deals mostly with the excit
ing details of her pilgrimages, but also stresses her fervent
religious motivation.
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York- Crowell, 1966. An adaptation of the last revision (1892) by the author of a book first pub-' '■" >
lished in 1842. It is a story of Douglass’ escape from slavery and his rise to prominence.
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Douglass, Marjory Stoneman. FREEDOM RIVER. Old
Tappan, NJ: Scribner, 1953. A tale of three boys - one
white one black and one a Seminole Indian - who find
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member of the Chicago Board of
Trade for forty years. During the
Great Chicago Fire he rescued
many valuable docments. His oil
portrait hangs in the Board's Hall
of Celebrities. The home he and
Anna Hudlun built near Dearborn
Station was one of the first built in
Chicago by black owners. They
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Railroad station there. Courtesy of
the Vivian G. Harsh Collection,
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THE LIBERTY LINE: THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Lexington: University of Kentucky Ptess, 1961. The author questions and attempts to determine
the extent to which the Underground Railroad accounts are factual.
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Browin, Frances WUliams. LOOKING FOR ORLANDO. New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
Carrighar, Sally. THE GLASS DOVE. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
Clark, Margaret Gogg. FREEDOM CROSSING. New York: Funk & WagnaUs, 1969. After spend
ing four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are
property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on
Underground Railroad.
Danforth. Mildred E. A QUAKER PIONEER: LAURA HAV1LAND, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Exposition Press, 1961.
Children, 1967.
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New York: T. Nelson, 1957. Twelve-year-old Peter goes to
live with his Quaker uncle whose farm on the bank of the
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New York: Lothrop, 1959. A twelve-year-old white boy and
his uncle, The Freedom Man, help Daniel a slave boy and
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Indianapolis. IN: Bobbs, 1965. New England and an
Underground Railroad station are the background for this
story. When Jeanie’s widowed mother is forced to break
up her family because she cannot take care of them, Jeanie
is sent to live with the Aldens, who secretly operate a sta
tion.
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Bradford, Sarah. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE MOSES OF
HER PEOPLE. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1961. A story of
Harriet Tubman, the illiterate escaped slave who made
nineteen journeys deep into the South to escort over 300
slaves to freedom. The book deals mostly with the excit
ing details of her pilgrimages, but also stresses her fervent
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of Celebrities. The home he and
Anna Hudlun built near Dearborn
Station was one of the first built in
Chicago by black owners. They
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Gara. Larry THE LIBERTY LINE: THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Browin. Frances Williams. LOOKING FOR ORLANDO. New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
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Claris, Margaret Gogg. FREEDOM CROSSING. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. After spend
ing four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are
property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on
Underground Railroad.
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to the North H CW>]m* plantatl0n in an attemPt to reach their freed father five hundred miles
Udenburg, Thomas J. and William S. McFeely. THE BLACK MAN IN THE LAND OF EQUALITY.
ew or . ayden Book Co., 1969. Traces the history of the black man in America through the
Reconstruction of the 1870’s and the desegregation of the 1950’s to the riots of the 1960’s.
Danforth, Mildred E. A QUAKER PIONEER: LAURA HAVILAND. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Exposition Press, 1961.
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(Reprint 1993) A brief biography in verse about Harriet Tubman and her dedicated efforts to lead
her fellow slaves to freedom.
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black Quaker member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery
Society, secretary of the Philadelphia Vigilance
Committees active abolitionist, and son of two sla ves.
worked as an agent on the Underground Railroad. He
interviewed “passengers" in order to gain information
that would enable family members to locate loved ones
in Canada. This book is a compilation of those inter
views he recorded in narrative form, as weU as letters
and newspaper clippings about slavery and the run
aways.
Lester. Julius, ed. TO BE A SLAVE. New York: Dial Press. 1968. A compilation selected from vari
ous sources and arranged chronologically of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about the
experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Loguen, Jermain Wesley. THE REV. J. W. LOGUEN. AS A SLAVE AND AS A FREEMAN; A NAR
RATIVE OF REAL LIFE. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968. (Reprint 1859)
McGovern, Ann. RUNAWAY SLAVE: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Four
Winds Press (Scholastic), 1965. A simply told biography of Harriet Tubman which gives a vivid
account of her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
WANTED—DEAD OR ALIVE: THE TRUE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Four
Winds Press, 1965. A biography of the slave who escaped to freedom, then returned and led three
hundred other slaves to the North by way of the Underground Railroad.
McPherson. James M. THE NEGRO’S CIVIL WAR: HOW NEGROES FELT AND ACTED DURING
THE WAR FOR THE UNION. New York: Pantheon, 1965. The author presents documentary evi
dence from Black and abolitionist newspapers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and official records to
show that Blacks actively participated and many became leaders in the emancipation of the slaves
from 1860 to 1865.
Patterson, Lillie. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Champaign. IL: Garrard Publishing Co., 1965. The
reader follows Frederick through his increasing hatred of slavery and his escape. His home in New
York became one of the Underground Railroad stations for fleeing slaves.
Sterling. Dorothy. FOREVER FREE: THE STORY OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1963. Describes the events leading up to the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation that freed over four million slaves in the United States.
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known as the “Fire Angel" because of
the hospitality she extended to fire vic
tims during the Chicago fires. In 1871
she and Joseph Hudlun opened their
five room home to five families—some
black and some white. Their home was
a mecca of social and civic activity. It
was an Underground Railroad station
before and during the Civil War.
Courtesy of the Vivian G. Harsh
Collection, Chicago Public Library
Williams, James. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES
WILLIAMS. A FUGITIVE SLAVE. WITH A FULL
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Saratoga, CA: R. & E Research Associates, 1969.
Williamson. Joanne. AND FOREVER FREE New York:
Knopf, 1966. The social and political scene in New York
City during the years leading up to the Emancipation
Proclamation is shown through the story of an eighteenyear-old German immigrant who befriends a runaway slave.
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Strother, Horatio T. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
IN CONNECTICUT. Middletown. CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 1962.
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Sterling, Philip and Logan Rayford. FOUR TOOK FREEDOM: THE LIVES OF HARRIET TUBMAN. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. ROBERT SMALLS. AND BLANCHE K. BRUCE. Garden City. NY:
Doubleday, 1967. Biographical portraits of four famous African Americans who escaped the slav
ery into which they had been born to further the fight for freedom and equality.
Sterne, Emma Gelders. THE LONG BLACK SCHOONER: THE VOYAGE OF THE AMISTAD.
Chicago: Follett Pub Co.. 1968. A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave
ship Amistad and the subsequent Amistad Case argued by John Quincy Adams before the United
States Supreme Court.
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Forman, James. SONG OF JUBILEE. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. This expose of slavery
reveals the ambivalent feelings among slaves in one household, particularly after freedom is granted.
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Fox. Paula. THE SLAVE DANCER New York: Dell. 1973. A stark view of slavery as seen through
the eyes of a young white boy who is shanghaied on a slaver and forced to make music for its
human cargo.
Freedman, Florence B. TWO TICKETS TO FREEDOM: THE TRUE STORY OF ELLEN AND
WILLIAM CRAFT, FUGITIVE SLAVES. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1971. Contemporary
sources such as newspaper articles, journals, and the published story of William Craft help reconstruct this interesting account.
Lester, Julius.
1972. Shr s.one^l'SS^avel0^ FR°M BUCK H“ New York: Dial Press.
Grant, Matthew G. HARRIET TUBMAN, BLACK LIBERATOR. Mankato. MN: Creative
Education. 1974 A biography of the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who worked
to free her people before, during, and after the Civil War.
1975.
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Gray. Genevieve. THE YELLOW BONE RING. New York: Lothrop, 1971. The pride and responsi
bility of freedom are explored in this dramatic story of a young ex-slave in the First South Carolina
Volunteers, the first Black Union Army regiment.
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family of Quakers operating a station on the Underground Railroad spirits slaves from Ashtabula
Ohio across Lake Erie to freedom.
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Harrison. Lowell Hayes. THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT IN KENTUCKY. Lexington. KY:
University Press of Kentucky, 1978.
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rUnaW3y S,3Ve heIPs hvo li«le girls survive in
blizzard, and they in turn help him hide from his pursuers
GARRETT. Moylan, PA: Whimsie Press, 1977,
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Henderson, Nancy. WALK TOGETHER: FIVE PLAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. New York: Messner.
1972. One of the plays is the story of slaves risking their lives for freedom in the Underground Railroad.
Johnson. Ann Donegan. THE VALUE OF HELPING: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. La
Jolla, CA: Value Communications, 1979. Describes the helpful work of Harriet Tubman in aiding
slaves to flee the South in assisting the Union army during the Civil War and in establishing homes
for the old and needy after the war.
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Greenfield, Eloise. HONEY, I LOVE. New York: Thomas T. Crowell Co. 1978. A picture book col
lection of poems about various subjects including a poem about Harriet Tubman and her escape
from slavery.
Heidish, Marcy. A WOMAN CALLED MOSES. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1976.
Harriet Tubman looks back over her life and tells her own story. The reader sees her as a sevenyear-old enslaved African her heartaches and griefs on through her escape by way of the
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Grand River Institute, in Ohio,
in exchange for the opportunity
to study Greek and Latin. He
settled in Chicago in 1837. He
taught hvo years then went to
work in a law office so that he
could study law. He was a prac
ticing lawyer until he was elect
ed Justice of the Peace. He was
one of the founders of the antislavery society in 1859 and
helped establish the Western
Citizen which was edited by
Zebina Eastman.
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Barbara Claassen. RUNAWAY TO FREEDOM- A
STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. New York:
Harper & Row, 1978. Two young slave girls escape from a plan-
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THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR. New York: Collier Books, 1984. A black family moves into an
enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves Mysterious sounds and events as
well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
S^RY^
THE MYSTERY OF DREAR HOUSE: THE CONCLUSION OF THE DIES DREAR CHRONICLE
New York: Greenwillow Books, 1987. A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist
Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure hidden for one hundred years in a
cavern near their home.
WITH CON-
Facts on File Publications. 1988. Describes the liLf theVhnl^
American slaves resulted in the raid on Harpers Ferry.
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Hurmence, Belinda. A GIRL CALLED BOY. New York: Clarion, 1982. Mysteriously transported in
tune to the 1850 s, a young girl learns to respect the courage of her slave forebears.
Johnson, Georgia. A TOWPATH TO FREEDOM. East Lansing: G. A Johnson Publishing, 1989.
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Klingel, Cynthia Fitterer. HARRIET TUBMAN. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1987. A biog
raphy of the runaway slave who risked her life to help other slaves escape to freed om.
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Lame. Reginald. MAKIN’ FREE: AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
Detroit: B. Ethridge Books, 1981. A book which traces the early arrival and exploits of a number
of lesser known African Americans who explored the Northwest regions of the United States and
Upper Canada.
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Lester, Julius. THIS STRANGE NEW FEELING. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 1985. The impact of
slavery on the human spirit is presented in three love stories based on true events.
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McKissack. Patricia and Frederick McKissack. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: THE BLACK LION.
Chicago: Children’s Press, 1987. Frederick Douglass becomes a spokesperson in the antislavery
movement.
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Meyer. Linda D. HARRIET TUBMAN: THEY CALLED ME MOSES. Seattle: Parenting Press, 1988.
Biography of the Black woman who lived as a slave, free woman, conductor of the Underground
Railroad and benefactor to the needy.
Rev. Richard DeBaptiste is associ
ated with Olivet Baptist Church in
Chicago. He and many members
of his church worked with members of Quinn Chapel A.M.E.
Church in antislavery activities.
He also took the personal risk of
loaning his freedom papers to
Underground Railroad passen
gers. After his years as pastor of
Miller, Douglas T. FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. New York: Facts
on File, 1988. Traces the life of the black abolitionist, from his early years in slavery to his later
success as a persuasive editor orator and writer.
Phelan, Helen C. AND WHY NOT EVERY MAN? AN ACCOUNT OF SLAVERY, THE UNDER
GROUND RAILROAD, AND THE ROAD TO FREEDOM IN NEW YORK'S SOUTHERN TIER.
Interlake. NY: Heart of the Lakes Pub, 1987.
Polcovar, Jane. HARRIET TUBMAN. Danbury. CT: Childrens Press Choice, 1988.
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Sabin. Francene. HARRIET TUBMAN. Mahwah.NJ: Troll Associates, 1985. A biography of the
Stein,
RAILROAD^' THErSJORYOF THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1981. Discusses the
network of groups and individuals throughout Ohio and the
New England states who aided slaves escaping from their
captivity during the nineteenth century.
Turner Ann Warren. NETTIE'S TRIP SOUTH. New YorkJheu^Iv rr87' f
year'°'dn°rthern8irlcounters
the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond,
Virginia, and sees a slave auction.
Books) Presents biographical sketches of fourteen notable
ParkTan^Sat^erp^'11^1^ ^art*n Luther King, Jr., Rosa
IS?*™. Satchel PaiSe* accompanied by brief skits in
hich readers can act out imagined scenes from their lives.
Walker, Juliet. E K FREE FRANK: A BLACK PIONEER ON
Lexington:
leadership P to Second'BaptTsf
TOEWRONruTv^6' DANIEL WEBSTER JACKSON AND
Church in Elgin. Courtesy of the
Vivian G. Harsh Collection.
Chicago Public Library
WRONGWAY RAILWAY. San Diego: Oak Tree
Publicatmns.1982- A teenage boy decides to leave his foster
"orn^ m Missouri rather than become involved in Judge
Hatcher s scheme to break up the Underground Railroad
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David and Sarah West and their five children loaded their household
goods into a wagon and left Erie County, New York, in the faU of1843.
After 23 days of travel, resting on Sundays, they arrived in Sycamore.
Their house became the stopping place for visiting Congregational
ministers and it was an Underground Railroad station. In 1840 David
West voted (only Caucasian men had the franchise) for the Liberty
Party’s presidential candidate, James G. Bimey.
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Wells, Marian. THE SILVER HIGHWAY. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1989.
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Adler, David A. A PICTURE BOOK OF HARRIET TUBMAN. New York: Holiday House, 1994.
Biography of the Black woman who escaped from slavery to become famous as a conductor on the
Underground Railroad.
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Adler, David A. A PICTURE BOOK OF SOJOURNER TRUTH. New York: Holiday House. 1994.
An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist
and crusader for the rights of African Americans.
H^rBx9TocMNEGurD E TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York:
Braithwaite, Di ana.
Martha and Elvira.-
A ONE ACT PLAY. Toronto: SisterVisio
n. 1993.
Brandt, Nat. THE TOWN
that started the civil WAR.
Press, 1990.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Allen. Danice. ARMS OF A STRANGER. New York: Avon Books, 1995.
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Armstrong. Jennifer. STEAL AWAY. New York: Orchard Books, 1992. In 1855 two thirteen yearold girls one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey
north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two young girls.
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Beatty, Patricia. JAYHAWKER. New York: Beech Tree, 1995. In the early years of the Civil War.
teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves
from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
AScX"™L™Ti, ** <**»*■*,, 1992 A „• „
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Unknown Author. WHO COMES WITH CANNONS? New York: Morrow Junior Books. 1992. In
1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North
CvU W St3tl0n °f thC Under8round Railroad when her world is changed by the beginning of the
Narrative of
Becvar. Patsy. A PLACE CALLED MOTHER HUBBARD CUPBOARD. Chicago: Nystrom, 1991.
This book is used to introduce the concepts of slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Benjamin, Anne. YOUNG HARRIET TUBMAN: FREEDOM FIGHTER. Mahwah.NJ: Troll
Associates, 1992. A simple biography of the Black woman who was never caught as she helped
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Cosner, Shaaron. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Franklin Watts. 1991. Describes
the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom.
Craft. William. RUNNING A THOUSAND MILES FOR FREEDOM, OR THE ESCAPE OF
WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT FROM SLAVERY. Salem. NH: Ayer Co.. 1991.
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Hoobler, Dorothy. NEXT STOP. FREEDOM: THE STORY OF A SLAVE GIRL. Englewood Cliffs
help'ofHarriefTu bman'199L Emily’" ^ ^ Wh°,0ngS t0 read' eSCaPes from slaverX
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Crews. Donald. BIGMAMA’S. New York : GreenwiUow Books, 1991. Visiting Bigmama’s house in
the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its sur
roundings just the same as the year before.
Hopkinson. Deborah. SWEET CLARA AND THE FREEDOM QUILT. New York: Knopf. 1993 A
young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.
Douglas. Marjory Stoneman. FREEDOM RIVER. Miami: Valiant Press, 1994. In the 1840s, as
Florida prepares to become a state, an Indian boy, black slave, and white settler become friends
and explore their differences and common bonds.
Johnson. La Verne C. KUMI AND CHANTI TELL THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN. Chicago:
Empak Enterprises. 1992. Two African children following their mission of exploring AfricanAmerican history record the story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery and led over 300
of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Douglass. Frederick. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY: THE BOYHOOD OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS IN
HIS OWN WORDS. Ed and illus. by Michael McCurdy New York: Knopf, 1994. A revised and
shortened edition of THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. AN AMERI
CAN SLAVE. This version of Douglass’ autobiography presents the early life of the slave who
became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.
Kinard, Lee. HARRIET TUBMAN’S FAMOUS CHRISTMAS EVE RAID. Nashville: James C
Winston Publishers, 1995.
Lawrence. Jacob. THE GREAT MIGRATION: AN AMERICAN STORY. New York: HarperCollins.
1993. A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's fami
ly. left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
Elisha, Dan. HARRIET TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Brookfield, CT:
Millbrook Press, 1993. A biography of the African American woman who escaped from slavery,
led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, aided Northern troops during the Civil War.
and worked for women’s suffrage.
Levine. Ellen. IF YOU TRAVELED ON THE UNDER
GROUND RAILROAD. New York: Scholastic, 1993.
Describes the Underground Railroad which helped
slaves escape to freedom.
Forrester, Sandra. SOUND THE JUBILEE. New York: Lodestar Books, 1995. A slave and her fami
ly find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina during the Civil War.
Gaines. Edith M. FREEDOM LIGHT. Cleveland: New Day Press, 1991. The story of the antislav
ery heroes of Ripley. Ohio, based on eyewitness accounts of two of their leaders John Rankin and
John Parker.
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Marcey, Sally. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Wheaton, IL: T^ndale House Publishers. 1991. A plotyour-own story about the Underground Railroad Follow
the Ringers as they find a hidden tunnel under the old
church in town and discover it may have been used to
hide slaves The reader’s choices will determine which of
fifteen endings will happen.
Guccione. Leslie D. COME MORNING. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1995. Twelve-year-old
Freedom the son of a freed slave living in Delaware in the early 1850s, takes his father’s work in the
Underground Railroad when his father disappears.
Hamilton, Virginia. MANY THOUSAND GONE: AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM SLAVERY TO
FREEDOM. New York: Knopf, 1993 Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the
Underground Railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
----- THE PEOPLE COULD FLY: AMERICAN BLACK FOLKTALES. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural and desire for freedom born
of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
Haskins, James. GET ON BOARD: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York:
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Scholastic 1993. Discusses the Underground RaUroad. the secret, loosely organized network of
people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.
The portrait ofthe John Wagner family of
Aurora was painted by artist Sheldon
Peck. It was unusual in that Peck usually
painted portraits ofindividuals. His mak
ing an exception to this practice may have
had something to do with the fact that the
Wagners operated an Underground
Railroad station in Aurora and Peck oper
ated one in Lombard. Courtesy of the
Aurora Historical Society
McCay, Willie. YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE
PLANTATION TREASURE. NY: Random House, 1990.
McClard, Megan. HARRIET TUBMAN: SLAVERY AND
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990. A biography of the
courageous woman who rose from slave beginnings to
become a heroic figure in the Underground Railroad.
McKissack, Patricia C. CHRISTMAS IN THE BIG
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HOUSE, CHRISTMAS IN THE QUARTERS. New York: Scholastic, 1994. Describes the customs,
recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave
quarters just before the Civil War.
SOJOURNER TRUTH: AIN’TIA WOMAN? New York: Scholastic, 1992. A biography of the for
mer slave who became well-known as a abolitionist and advocate of women’s rights.
in Illinois
Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on
the Underground Railroad in order lo reunite
with her younger brother.
beginning a new free life when he
small island off the coast of Haiti.
McMullan, Kate. THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN: CONDUCTOR OF THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD. New York: Dell, 1991.
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Monfredo, Miriam Grace. NORTH STAR CONSPIRACY. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Monjo, F. N. THE DRINKING GOURD: A STORY OF TIDE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New
York: HarperCollins, 1993. When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy dis
covers that his house is a station on the Underground Railroad.
him into slavery, after which he always escaped.
family in Kansas in thTute^SOs o^erltK fstafton^n theTd
paraUeI s,ori«. a Q“aker
Pfeifer, Kathryn Browne. HENRY 0. FLIPPER. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1993.
Examines the life of the first African American graduate of West Point, including his dishonorable
discharge from the Army which was reversed nearly 100 years later.
S.adeihofen,Marcie Miller. ERIE FREEDOM SIDE. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press. 1990,
Phillips, Raelene. FREEDOM’S TREMENDOUS COST. Elkhart, IN: Bethel Pub Co. 1993. The
Stivers family tradition continues Hannah and her children struggle for freedom, this time for
southern slaves escaping to the North with the help of abolitionists and the Underground Railroad.
collection ofwritingslfy^hluthlfrs a^WE b'duBo^ T^'m' ^ Millbrook Press. «95. A
Polacco, Patricia. PINK AND SAY. New York: Philomel Books. 1994. Say Curtis describes his meet
ing with Pinkus Alee, a black soldier, during the Civil War. and their capture by Southern troops.
Wright, and Ralph Ellison, exploring the a,nnecfto„, of IT T™’ *“* Dove’ Richard
rC VCl* water’and sonS that link past
and present African American cultures.
Stolz, Mary. CEZANNE PINTO: A MEMOIR.
Pmto recalls his youth as a slave on Virginiaplamaton and'his^^0 new^etfe NoTth™'
Porter, Connie Rose. MEET ADDY: AN AMERI
CAN GIRL. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993.
Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life
of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.
rorYo™hGreoaECHNew“rt °L™yN ^'fbm mf 199T^eRICAN “T™** AND ART
Afti'an A-ka" experience as’ seen Ihro^^tTd
ADDY LEARNS A LESSON: A SCHOOL STORY.
Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co., 1993. After escaping
from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her
mother arrive in Philadelphia where Addy goes to
school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
The author confers with Fulton County his
torian Curtis Strode who wrote a newspaper
series based on the UGRR activiies of his
great grandfather, Francis Overton and fel
low abolitionists. The Overton Farm was on
the route between Quincy and Galesburg.
Rappaport, Doreen. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY:
FIVE JOURNEYS TO FREEDOM. New York:
HarperCollins, 1991. Five accounts of slaves who
managed to escape to freedom during the period
preceding the Civil War.
Ringgold. Faith. AUNT HARRIET’S UNDER
GROUND RAILROAD IN TIDE SKY. New York: Crown, 1992. With Harriet Tbbman as her guide,
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Caroirhoda Books, J995. Recounts how Allen Jay, a
°'AD. Minneapolis:
1840s, helped a fleeing slave i
Railroad.
Taylor, Marian W. HARRIET TUBMAN.
Danbury. CT: Grolier, 1990.
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Weinberg, Larry. GHOST HOTEL. Mahwah, NJ: Troll, 1994. Mysteriously drawn to an Indiana
museum, a twelve-year-old paralyzed girl encounters ghosts who return her to a former life, where
she attempts to save the son of a freed slave traveling by Underground Railroad in Kentucky.
Winter, Jeanette. FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD. New York: Dragonfly Books. 1992. By fol
lowing the directions in a song, “The Drinking Gourd," taught to them by an old sailor named Peg
Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
Wright, Courtni Crump. JOURNEY TO FREEDOM: A STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAIL
ROAD. New York: Holiday House, 1994. Joshua and his family, runaway slaves from a tobacco
plantation in Kentucky, follow the Underground Railroad to freedom.
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"During all my slave life I never lost sight of freedom. It
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thought, and often circumstances much stimulated the
desire to be free and raised great expectation of it"—
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Rev. Hall was not only a leader in the African Methodist Episcopal
Church. He was the grandfather of Lloyd Augustus Hall, the holder
of many patents. Lloyd Hall specialized in perfecting methods of
preserving foods. His work was essential to te development of dehy
drated Army rations during World War II. Courtesy of Vivian G.
Harsh Collection, Chicago Public Library
Allan Pinkerton solved his first crime quite by chance. While he was a
cooper, or barrel maker, in Dundee, he went to gather reeds with which to
bind the barrels. He rowed his boat to an island in the Fox River where the
reeds grew. There, he discovered the hiding place of counterfeiters whom
the local sheriff had been unable to locate. Pinkerton instantly gained a
reputation as a detective.
Braille Books for Children, 1983. The biography of a slave
whose flight to freedom was the first step in her becoming a
“conductor” on the Underground Railroad.
tation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground
Railroad.
Bledsoe. Lucy Jane. HARRIET TUBMAN. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Quercus. 1989.
Talmudge, Marian and Iris Gilmore. BARNEY FORD: BLACK BARON. New York: Dodd. 1973.
An indomitable man who escaped from slavery and became a wealthy leader in the political,
social, and business life of Denver, Colorado.
Blockson, Charles L. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. New York: Berkley, 1989. A comprehen
sive study of the Underground Railroad arranged by the geographic regions in which it operated
Based on many primary sources.
T\imer, Glennette. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN DuPAGE. Wheaton, IL: Newman, 1978.
Warner, Lucille Schulberg. FROM SLAVE TO ABOLITIONIST: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WELLS
BROWN. New York: Dial Press, 1976. The memoirs of a fugitive slave a man important in the
abolitionist movements in England and America. (Adaptation)
Bradley. David. THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT. New York: Harper & Row. 1981.
Carlson, J. HARRIET TUBMAN: CALL TO FREEDOM. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989.
Traces Harriet Tubman’s life, experience, and efforts to aid slaves in escaping to the North, as well
as her assistance to the Union cause during the Civil War.
White. Anne Terry. NORTH TO LIBERTY: THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub Co., 1972. Describes the operation, stations, and famous conductors
on the Underground Railroad, a network that helped many slaves escape from bondage.
Collier, Christopher and James Lincoln Collier. WAR COMES TO WILLY FREEMAN. New York:
Delacorte Press, 1983. Historical novel that portrays the plight of Black people during the
American Revolution.
Williams, Jeanne. FREEDOM TRAIL. New York: Putnam, 1973. Jared continues his stand against
slavery in pre-Civil War Kansas even though his father is killed by proslavers.
Collier, James Lincoln. WHO IS CARRIE? New York: Dell Pub Co., 1987. A young Black girl living
in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around
her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity.
Winslow. Eugene. AFRO-AMERICANS 76: BLACK AMERICANS IN THE FOUNDING OF OUR
NATION. Chicago: Afro-Am Pub Co., 1975. Provides biographical sketches of Afro-Americans
who contributed to the exploration, Revolution, and growth of the United States.
Ferris, Jeri. GO FREE OR DIE: A STORY ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN. Minneapolis: First Avenue
Editions, 1988. A biography of the Black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South
led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad.
1980
Anderson, Joan A. WILLIAMSBURG HOUSEHOLD. New York: Clarion Books, 1988. Focuses on
events in the household of d white family and its black slaves in Colonial Williamsburg in the eigh
teenth century.
Haley, Alex. A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS. New York: Doubleday, 1988. This adven
ture, set in 1855, tells the story of a young white Southerner who helps in the Underground
Railroad and in an enslaved African’s Christmas Eve escape attempt.
Avi. SOMETHING UPSTAIRS. New York: Avon Books, 1988. When he moves from Los Angeles
to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new home is haunted by the spirit of a black
slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his mur
der by slave traders.
Hamilton, Virginia. ANTHONY BURNS: THE DEFEAT AND TRIUMPH OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE.
New York: A A Knopf, 1988. A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrest
ed at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those
determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Bains. Rae. HARRIET TUBMAN: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM (Braille) Livonia, MI: Seedlings
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Photocopy of pages from the book The Underground Railroad in Illinois by Glennette Tilley Turner related to other resources that talked about the Underground Railroad.
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Turner, Glennette Tilley
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Newman Educational Publishing
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Published 2001
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DPL.0013.007
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Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement
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Make Free: The Story of the Underground Railroad
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Many Thousand Gone: African Americans From Slavery to Freedom
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Mean to be Free: A Flight North on the Underground Railroad
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Deerfield Integration Case Records
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American Civil Rights Movement
Deerfield, Illinois
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Civil Rights Special Report
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