The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

Reprint Services Corporation, 1898 - 478 páginas

CHAPTER I	1

Enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793	2

Isaac T Hopper	3

Scarcity of contemporaneous documents	7

The value of reminiscences illustrated	13

Levi Coffin	15

CHAPTER II	17

Frederick Douglass	35

Occupations of Canadian refugees	223

Progress made by Canadian refugees	229

The question of concurrent jurisdiction between the federal	253

Church of the Fugitive Slaves Boston Massachusetts	253

Rights of citizenship	255

The law of 1793 versus the Ordinance of 1787	261

J R Ware	282

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850	288

Título	The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom
Autor	Wilbur Henry Siebert
Edición	reimpresa
Editor	Reprint Services Corporation, 1898
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Minnesota
Digitalizado	22 Ene. 2014
Largo	478 páginas

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Thomas Garrett	53

Methods of conveyance	56

Zigzag and variable routes	64

Informality of management	73

Supplies for fugitives	83

CHAPTER IV	87

Rush R Sloane	102

Thaddeus Stevens	106

Conditions under which the Underground Road originated	108

Geographical extent of underground lines	115

Southern routes	127

House of Mrs Elizabeth Buffum Chace Valley Falls Rhode Island	130

Lines within the old Northwest Territory	134

Broken lines and isolated place names	141

The Detroit River at Detroit Michigan	146

Ellen Craft as she escaped from Slavery	162

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793	174

Dr Alexander M Ross	180

Misinformation about Canada among slaves	197

Group of Refugee Settlers at Windsor Ontario C	204

Encouragement of agricultural colonies among refugees	205

Census of Canadian refugees	213

CHAPTER X	289

Gerrit Smith	289

Desire for freedom among the slaves	300

The enforcement of the law of 1850	317

Importance of the question in the constitutional conventions	323

Character as citizens	327

FACING PAGE	331

Their hospitality	343

Facsimile of a Leaf from the Diary of Daniel Osborn On pages 344	344

Work of the Underground Railroad as compared with that of	350

Constitutional Provisions and National Acts rela	359

List of Important Fugitive Slave Cases	367

Figures from the United States Census Reports	378

Directory of the names of Underground Railroad	403

Agitation for a more efficient measure	443

Their principles	448

8888888	455

90	463

Refusal of the Canadian government to yield up the fugitive Ander	467

The development of the movement in the New England states	471

192	472

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