16. Libraries
While the great mass of evidence that has made this volume possible
was collected by field work, the author did not neglect to search libraries,
both public and private, in the prosecution of his undertaking. He was
able to make use of the public libraries of Cincinnati, besides the private
library of Major E. C. Dawes of that city, the state library, and the
library of Ohio State University at Columbus, the library of C. M.
Burton, Esq., of Detroit, Michigan, and during two years' residence in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was able to avail himself of the splendid
collections of anti-slavery books and pamphlets to be found in the
Boston Public Library and the library of Harvard University. The
materials for the chapter on "Prosecutions of Underground Railroad
Men" were gathered in the Harvard Law Library.
