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The underground railroad from slavery to freedom : a comprehensive history / Wilbur H. Siebert ; with an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart.

Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961 (Author). Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 (writer of introduction.).

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"First published in 1898, this comprehensive history was the first-documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches and a large number of other firsthand accounts" - Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 0486450392
ISBN: 9780486450391
Physical Description: xxv, 478 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Publisher: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications Inc., 2006.

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General Note:	"List of important fugitive slave cases": pages 367-377. Originally published: New York : Macmillan Co., 1898.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-402) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Sources of the history of the Underground Railroad -- Origin and growth of the Underground Railroad -- The methods of the Underground Railroad -- Underground agents, station-keepers, or conductors - Study of the map of the Underground Railroad system -- Abduction of slaves from the South -- Life of the colored refugees in Canada -- Fugitive settlers in the Northern states -- Prosecutions of Underground Railroad men -- The Underground Railroad in politics -- Effect of the Underground Railroad.

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The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom : A Comprehensive History

The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom : A Comprehensive History

by Siebert, Wilbur H.; Hart, Albert Bushnell (Introduction by)

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The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom : A Comprehensive History

Section	Section Description	Page Number
Chapter I	Sources of the History of the Underground Railroad
	The Underground Road as a subject for research	p. 1
	Obscurity of the subject	p. 2
	Books dealing with the subject	p. 2
	Magazine articles on the Underground Railroad	p. 5
	Newspaper articles on the subject	p. 6
	Scarcity of contemporaneous documents	p. 7
	Reminiscences the chief source	p. 11
	The value of reminiscences illustrated	p. 12
Chapter II	Origin and Growth of the Underground Road
	Conditions under which the Underground Road originated	p. 17
	The disappearance of slavery from the Northern states	p. 17
	Early provisions for the return of fugitive slaves	p. 19
	The fugitive slave clause in the Ordinance of 1787	p. 20
	The fugitive slave clause in the United States Constitution	p. 20
	The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793	p. 21
	The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850	p. 22
	Desire for freedom among the slaves	p. 25
	Knowledge of Canada among the slaves	p. 27
	Some local factors in the origin of the underground movement	p. 30
	The development of the movement in eastern Pennsylvania, in New Jersey, and in New York	p. 33
	The development of the movement in the New England states	p. 36
	The development of the movement in the West	p. 37
	The naming of the Road	p. 44
Chapter III	The Methods of the Underground Railroad
	Penalties for aiding fugitive slaves	p. 47
	Social contempt suffered by abolitionists	p. 48
	Espionage practised upon abolitionists	p. 50
	Rewards for the capture of fugitives and the kidnapping of abolitionists	p. 52
	Devices to secure secrecy	p. 54
	Service at night	p. 54
	Methods of communication	p. 56
	Methods of conveyance	p. 59
	Zigzag and variable routes	p. 61
	Places of concealment	p. 62
	Disguises	p. 64
	Informality of management	p. 67
	Colored and white agents	p. 69
	City vigilance committees	p. 70
	Supplies for fugitives	p. 76
	Transportation of fugitives by rail	p. 78
	Transportation of fugitives by water	p. 81
	Rescue of fugitives under arrest	p. 83
Chapter IV	Underground Agents, Station-Keepers, or Conductors
	Underground agents, station-keepers, or conductors	p. 87
	Their hospitality	p. 87
	Their principles	p. 89
	Their nationality	p. 90
	Their church connections	p. 93
	Their party affinities	p. 99
	Their local standing	p. 101
	Prosecutions of underground operators	p. 101
	Defensive League of Freedom proposed	p. 103
	Persons of prominence among underground helpers	p. 104
Chapter V	Study of the Map of the Underground Railroad System
	Geographical extent of underground lines	p. 113
	Location and distribution of stations	p. 114
	Southern routes	p. 116
	Lines of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York	p. 120
	Routes of the New England states	p. 128
	Lines within the old Northwest Territory	p. 134
	Noteworthy features of the general map	p. 139
	Complex routes	p. 141
	Broken lines and isolated place names	p. 141
	River routes	p. 142
	Routes by rail	p. 142
	Routes by sea	p. 144
	Terminal stations	p. 145
	Lines of lake travel	p. 147
	Canadian ports	p. 148
Chapter VI	Abduction of Slaves from the South
	Aversion among underground helpers to abduction of slaves	p. 150
	Abductions by negroes living along the northern border of the slave states	p. 151
	Abductions by Canadian refugees	p. 152
	Abductions by white persons in the South	p. 153
	Abductions by white persons of the North	p. 154
	The Missouri raid of John Brown	p. 162
	John Brown's great plan	p. 166
	Abductions attempted in response to appeals	p. 168
	Devotees of abduction	p. 178
Chapter VII	Life of the Colored Refugees in Canada
	Slavery question in Canada	p. 190
	Flight of slaves to Canada	p. 192
	Refugees representative of the slave class	p. 195
	Misinformation about Canada among slaves	p. 197
	Hardships borne by Canadian refugees	p. 198
	Efforts toward immediate relief for fugitives	p. 199
	Attitude of the Canadian government	p. 201
	Conditions favorable to their settlement in Canada	p. 203
	Sparseness of population	p. 203
	Uncleared lands	p. 204
	Encouragement of agricultural colonies among refugees	p. 205
	Dawn Settlement	p. 205
	Elgin Settlement	p. 207
	Refugees' Home Settlement	p. 209
	Alleged disadvantages of the colonies	p. 211
	Their advantages	p. 212
	Refugee settlers in Canadian towns	p. 217
	Census of Canadian refugees	p. 220
	Occupations of Canadian refugees	p. 223
	Progress made by Canadian refugees	p. 224
	Domestic life of the refugees	p. 227
	School privileges	p. 228
	Organizations for self-improvement	p. 230
	Churches	p. 231
	Rescue of friends from slavery	p. 231
	Ownership of property	p. 232
	Rights of citizenship	p. 233
	Character as citizens	p. 233
Chapter VIII	Fugitive Settlers in the Northern States
	Number of fugitive settlers in the North	p. 235
	The Northern states an unsafe refuge for runaway slaves	p. 237
	Reclamation of fugitives in the free states	p. 239
	Protection of fugitives in the free states	p. 242
	Object of the personal liberty laws	p. 245
	Effect of the law of 1850 on fugitive settlers	p. 246
	Underground operators among fugitives of the free states	p. 251
Chapter IX	Prosecutions of Underground Railroad Men
	Enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793	p. 254
	Grounds on which the constitutionality of the measure was questioned	p. 254
	Denial of trial by jury to the fugitive slave	p. 255
	Summary mode of arrest	p. 257
	The question of concurrent jurisdiction between the federal and state governments in fugitive slave cases	p. 259
	The law of 1793 versus the Ordinance of 1787	p. 261
	Power of Congress to legislate concerning the extradition of fugitive slaves denied	p. 263
	State officers relieved of the execution of the law by the Prigg decision, 1842	p. 264
	Amendment of the law of 1793 by the law of 1850	p. 265
	Constitutionality of the law of 1850 questioned	p. 267
	First case under the law of 1850	p. 268
	Authority of a United States commissioner	p. 269
	Penalties imposed for aiding and abetting the escape of fugitives	p. 273
	Trial on the charge of treason in the Christiana case, 1854	p. 279
	Counsel for fugitive slaves	p. 281
	Last case under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850	p. 285
	Attempted revision of the law	p. 285
	Destructive attacks upon the measure in Congress	p. 286
	Lincoln's Proclamation of Emancipation	p. 287
	Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Acts	p. 288
Chapter X	The Underground Railroad in Politics
	Valuation of the Underground Railroad in its political aspect	p. 290
	The question of the extradition of fugitive slaves in colonial times	p. 290
	Importance of the question in the constitutional conventions	p. 293
	Failure of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793	p. 294
	Agitation for a more efficient measure	p. 295
	Diplomatic negotiations for the extradition of colored refugees from Canada, 1826-1828	p. 299
	The fugitive slave a missionary in the cause of freedom	p. 300
	Slave-hunting in the free states	p. 302
	Preparation for the abolition movement of 1830	p. 303
	The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850	p. 308
	The law in Congress	p. 310
	The enforcement of the law of 1850	p. 316
	The Underground Road and Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 321
	Political importance of the novel	p. 323
	Sumner on the influence of escaped slaves in the North	p. 324
	The spirit of nullification in the North	p. 327
	The Glover rescue, Wisconsin, 1854	p. 327
	The rendition of Burns, Boston, 1854	p. 331
	The rescue of Addison White, Mechaniesburg, Ohio, 1857	p. 334
	The Oberlin-Wellington rescue, 1858	p. 335
	Obstruction of the Fugitive Slave Law by means of the personal liberty acts	p. 337
	John Brown's attempt to free the slaves	p. 338
Chapter XI	Effect of the Underground Railroad
	The Underground Road the means of relieving the South of many despairing slaves	p. 340
	Loss sustained by slave-owners through underground channels	p. 340
	The United States census reports on fugitive slaves	p. 342
	Estimate of the number of slaves escaping into Ohio, 1830-1860	p. 346
	Similar estimate for Philadelphia, 1830-1860	p. 346
	Drain on the resources of the depot at Lawrence, Kansas, described in a letter of Col. J. Bowles, April 4, 1859	p. 347
	Work of the Underground Railroad as compared with that of the American Colonization Society	p. 350
	The violation of the Fugitive Slave Law a chief complaint of Southern states at the beginning of the Civil War	p. 351
	Refusal of the Canadian government to yield up the fugitive Anderson, 1860	p. 352
	Secession of the Southern states begun	p. 353
	Conclusion of the fugitive slave controversy	p. 355
	General effect and significance of the controversy	p. 356

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