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3. Personal Recollections

A few of those who were active in aiding slaves to escape to Canada
have published volumes of personal recollections, in which, among other
things, they tell more or less about their connection with the humane
but illegitimate work of the abolitionists, and give vivid sketches of
some of their associates, as well as of some of their dark-skinned
protégés. Such books are the Rev. James Freeman Clarke's Anti-Slavery
Days, the Rev. Samuel J. May's Recollections of our Anti-Slavery Conflict,
J. B. Grinnell's Men and Events of Forty Years, Mrs. Laura S. Haviland's
A Woman's Life Work and Mrs. E. B. Chace's Anti-Slavery Reminiscences.

A small class of books, of which the Personal Memoirs of Daniel
Drayton, and the books by Dr. A. M. Ross and the Rev. Calvin Fairbank
are representatives, are indispensable as sources of information relating
to the abduction of slaves from the South. The little book entitled
Harriet, the Moses of her People, in which that remarkable guide of
fugitives, Harriet Tubman, relates her exploits through the pen of her
friend, Mrs. S. H. Bradford, properly belongs to this group.