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Adventure at the mill / by Barbara and Heather Bramwell ; illustrated by William Lytle.
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New York : St Martin's Press, 1963.
1963
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Unwelcome guests [microform] : American fugitive slaves in Canada, 1830-1860 / by Jason Howard Silverman.
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1981
1981
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Running a thousand miles for freedom [by] William and Ellen Craft.
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New York, Arno Press, 1969.
1969-1860
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Report of the case of Edward Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, at January term, 1842 ... by Richard Peters.
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Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1970]
1970-1842
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The Underground Railroad from slavery to freedom. With an introd. by Albert Bushnell Hart.
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New York, Russell & Russell [1967]
1967-1898
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The slave catchers; enforcement of the Fugitive slave law, 1850-1860 [by] Stanley W. Campbell.
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Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1970]
1970
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The Under-ground Railroad, by W. M. Mitchell.
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Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1970]
1970-1860
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The fugitive blacksmith; or, Events in the history of James W. C. Pennington. 3d ed.
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Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1971]
1971-1850
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Sketches in the history of the Underground Railroad.
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Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
1971-1879
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The fugitive blacksmith; or, Events in the history of James W. C. Pennington.
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Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1971]
1971-1850
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Boston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns. New foreword by Donald Franklin Joyce.
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Northbrook, Ill., Metro Books, 1972.
1972-1854
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Free at last : the life of Frederick Douglass / Arna Bontemps.
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New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, [1971]
1971
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The true adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as told by John Seelye.
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Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1970.
1970
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Autobiography of a fugitive Negro / Samuel Ringgold Ward.
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New York : Arno Press : New York Times, 1968.
1968-1855
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And forever free ...
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New York, Knopf [1966]
1966
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Harriet Tubman.
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New York : P.S. Eriksson, [c1969]
1969-1943
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Les marrons de la liberté. Lettre-préf. de Pierre-Henri Simon.
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Paris, Éditions de l'École, 1972.
1972
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Grant, John N. Chesapeake Blacks who immigrated to New Brunswick, 1815.
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1972
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Three years in Europe: or, Places I have seen and people I have met. By W. Wells Brown, a fugitive slave. With a memoir of the author by William Farmer.
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London, C. Gilpin, 1852.
1852
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No slave-hunting in the old Bay State; an appeal to the people and legislature of Massachusetts.
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New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1860.
1860
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Argument of Wendell Phillips, Esq., before the Committee on Federal Relations of the Massachusetts Legislature. in support of the petitions for the removal of Edward Greely Loring from the office of judge of probate, February 20, 1855.
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Boston, J. B. Yerrington and son, Printers, 1855.
1855
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Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, by L. Maria Child.
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New York, Dodd Mead [1881]
1881
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The fugitive slave law and its victims. Rev. and enl. ed.
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New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1861.
1861
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| FormatText | Call numberSc Micro F-166 Ser. 2 no. 13-24 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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The duty of disobedience to the Fugitive slave act; an appeal to the legislators of Massachusetts.
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Boston, American Anti-slavery Society, 1860.
1860
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The fugitive slave law, and its victims.
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[New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1856]
1856
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No slave-hunting in the Old Bay state; an appeal to the people and legislature of Massachusetts.
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New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1860.
1860
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Across the Rio to freedom : U. S. Negroes in Mexico / by Rosalie Schwartz.
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El Paso : Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, [1974] c1975.
1974
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Maroon societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas.
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Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1973.
1973
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The fugitive slave law and Anthony Burns : a problem in law enforcement / Jane H. Pease, William H. Pease.
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Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1975]
1975
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Running a thousand miles for freedom [by] William and Ellen Craft.
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New York, Arno Press, 1969.
1969-1860
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Disclosures and confessions of Frank A. Wilmot, the slave thief and negro runner [microform] : with an accurate account of the under-ground railroad. What it is and where located. By a late conductor of the same. Also, full particulars of the plans adopted for running of slaves from the Southern states to the Canadas. Added to which is a history of the abduction of Miss Lucille Hamet, the planter's daughter, and a true description of slave life on a plantation/ by Franklin A Wilmot.
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Philadelphia : Barclay, [1860]
1860
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Correspondence between the Rev. Samuel H. Cox, D. D., of Brooklyn, L. I. and Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave [microform].
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New York : Office of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1846.
1846
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The truth about the man behind the book that sparked the War Between the States / Frances Cavanah.
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Philadelphia : Westminster Press, [1975]
1975
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Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage. A facsim. reproduction of the 1845 ed., with an introd. and index by Joe M. Richardson.
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Gainesville, University Presses of Florida, 1974.
1974-1845
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Les marrons de la liberté. Lettre-préf. de Pierre-Henri Simon.
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Paris, Éditions de l'École, 1972.
1972
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Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia relating to slaves, 1851-63.
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Washington, National Archives and Records Service, 1963.
1963
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| FormatText | Call numberSc Micro R-2100 r. 3 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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La cabaña del tío Tom.
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Barcelona, R. Sopena, 1940.
1940
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Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the lowly. A domestic drama, in six acts ...
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New York : S. French, [192-?]
1920-1929
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In memory of Edwin Channing Larned.
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Chicago : A. C. McClurg, 1886.
1886
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Palenques de negros en Cartagena de Indias a fines del siglo XVII. Prólogo del Dr. Don Luis Navarro García.
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Sevilla, 1973.
1973
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| FormatText | Call numberSc C 87-386 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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The struggle for freedom, phase I : as revealed in slave narratives of the pre-Civil War period, 1840-1860 / by Margaret Y. Jackson.
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Chicago : Adams Press, c1976.
1976
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Anthony Burns, a history.
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New York, Arno Press, 1969.
1969-1856
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 78-2216 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad; being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents.
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London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Cincinnati, Ohio, Western tract society, 1879.
1879
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| FormatText | Call number*ZAN-T3340 reel 375 no. 2599.1-2608 | Item locationOffsite |
Underground railroad in Tompkins County [microform] [and] North Star: a poem, by Sydney H. Gallwey.
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Ithaca, N. Y., published by the author in cooperation with DeWitt Historica Society of Tompkins County, 1963.
1963
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Kentucky jurisprudence. A history of the trial of Miss Delia A. Webster. At Lexington, Kentucky, Dec'r 17-21, 1844, before the Hon. Richard Buckner. On a charge of aiding slaves to escape from that Commonwealth: with miscellaneous remarks, including her views on American slavery. Written by herself ...
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Vergennes, Vt., E. W. Blaisdell, 1845.
1845
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| FormatText | Call number*ZAN-T3340 reel 233 no. 1548.1-1558 | Item locationOffsite |
The underground railroad records ... narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom; together with sketches of some of the eminent friends of freedom and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road ... Rev. ed....
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Philadelphia, W. Still, 1883.
1883
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| FormatText | Call number*ZAN-T3340 reel 490 no. 3678-3682 | Item locationOffsite |
The underground railroad in Massachusetts / by Wilbur H. Siebert.
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Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, 1936.
1936
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The personal liberty laws : remarks ... before the committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts, on the general statutes relating to personal liberty, at their hearing of Feb. 1, 1861 / Edward L. Pierce.
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Boston : Stacy & Richardson, 1861.
1861
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| FormatText | Call numberSc Micro F-7055 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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The first annual report of the New York Committee of Vigilance, for the year 1837, together with important facts relative to their proceedings. Pub. by direction of the committee.
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New York, Piercy & Reed, printers, 1837.
1837
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