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The underground railroad from slavery to freedom,

Siebert, Wilbur Henry (1866-1961)
  
[frontispiece]
  
[title page]
  
[dedication]
  
INTRODUCTION
  
CONTENTS
  
ILLUSTRATIONS, PORTRAITS, FACSIMILES AND MAPS
  
PREFACE
  
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

 I. 
CHAPTER I
 II. 
CHAPTER II
 III. 
CHAPTER III
 IV. 
CHAPTER IV
 V. 
CHAPTER V
 VI. 
CHAPTER VI
 VII. 
CHAPTER VII
 VIII. 
CHAPTER VIII
 IX. 
CHAPTER IX
 X. 
CHAPTER X
 XI. 
CHAPTER XI

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APPENDIX A
  
Fugitive Clause in Northwest Ordinance of 1787. [Chapter II, p. 20.]
  
Fugitive Clause in the Constitution. [Chapter II, p. 20.]
  
First Fugitive Slave Act. [Chapter II, p. 21.]
  
Fugitive Slave Clause in the Missouri Compromise. [Chapter X, p. 298.]
  
Second Fugitive Slave Act. [Chapter II, p. 22.]
 B. 
APPENDIX B
 C. 
APPENDIX C
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APPENDIX D
 1. 
1. Unpublished Reminiscences
 2. 
2. Printed Collections of Underground Railroad Incidents
 3. 
3. Personal Recollections
 4. 
4. Letters, Diaries and Scrap-books
 5. 
5. Biographies and Memoirs
 6. 
6. Slave Biographies and Autobiographies
 7. 
7. Materials Relating to Slavery and Fugitive Slaves in Canada
 8. 
8. State, County and Local Histories
 9. 
9. Reports of Societies
 10. 
10. Records of Trials
 11. 
11. Periodicals and Newspapers
 12. 
12. Histories of Religious Societies
 13. 
13. Materials Bearing on Legislation
 14. 
14. Contemporaneous and Modern Books on Slavery.
 15. 
15. Secondary Works
 16. 
16. Libraries
  
PRINTED COLLECTIONS OF UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INCIDENTS
  
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
  
BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
  
SLAVE BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
  
MATERIALS RELATING TO SLAVERY AND FUGITIVE SLAVES IN CANADA
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STATE, COUNTY, AND LOCAL HISTORIES
  
Illinois.
  
Indiana.
  
Iowa.
  
Massachusetts.
  
Michigan.
  
New York.
  
Ohio.
  
Pennsylvania.
  
Wisconsin.
  
PERIODICALS
  
NEWSPAPERS
  
MATERIALS BEARING ON LEGISLATION
  
CONTEMPORANEOUS AND MODERN BOOKS ON SLAVERY
  
REPORTS OF SOCIETIES
  
HISTORIES OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES
  
SECONDARY WORKS
  
IMAGINATIVE WORKS
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APPENDIX E
  
DIRECTORY OF THE NAMES OF UNDERGROUND RAILROAD OPERATORS
  
MEMBERS OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
  
MEMBERS OF THE "LEAGUE OF GILEADITES" OF SPEINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
  
MEMBERS OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
  
MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
  
SUPPLEMENT TO THE DIRECTORY OF THE NAMES OF UNDERGROUND OPERATORS
  
INDEX
  
American Hisotry
  
SOURCES OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
  
THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF VIRGINIA
  
THE HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
  
THE UNITED STATES.
  
The American Commonwealth.
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MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA[5]

(Organized December 2, 1852)

  • Asher, J.
  • Burr, J. P.
  • Bustill, Charles H.
  • Depee, Nathaniel.
  • Goines, B. N.
  • Gordon, Henry.
  • Hall, Morris.
  • M'Kim, J. M.
  • Nickless, Samuel.
  • Oliver, John D.
  • Purvis, Robert.
  • Reason, Prof. C. L.
  • Riley, W. H.
  • Still, William.
  • Wears, Josiah C.
  • White, Jacob C.
  • Whitson, Cyrus.
  • Wise, Charles.
 
[5]

These names are given in Still's Underground Railroad Records, pp.
610, 611, 612.

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