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History of the Underground Railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-Slavery League : including many thrilling encounters betwee

  
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Source: Original data: Cockrum, William Monroe,. History of the Underground Railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-Slavery League : including many thrilling encounters between those aiding the slaves to escape and those trying to recapture them. Oakland City, Ind.: J.W. Cockrum Print. Co., c1915.
 
Notes:   Includes index.
 
Subjects:   Anti-Slavery League.
Underground railroad -- Indiana.
Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements.
Indiana -- History -- 1775-1865.
Indiana
 
Location:   Indiana -- History -- 1775-1865.
 
Table of Contents
 
Front matter
Title page
Map
Chapter I. The organization of the Anti-Slavery League
Chapter II. Jerry Sullivans raid at the old Dongola bridge
Chapter III. An attempt to catch runaway negroes which ended in a desperate battle with wild hogs
Chapter IV. Ira Caswell brings three negroes to my father
Chapter V. Slaves escape while owners are deep in sleep, the result of too much drinking
Chapter VI. How three runaway slaves were assisted to freedom by the underground railway
Chapter VII. Kidnappers kidnapped
Chapter VIII. Workings of the underground railway and some engaged in the dangerous work
Chapter IX. Crazy Jeff Lewis
Chapter X. Ben Swain
Chapter XI. Sam Lynn
Chapter XII. A slave hunt to watch the Kirks Mill bridge
Chapter XIII. George Sturges
Chapter XIV. Dr. John W. Posey and Rev. Eldridge Hopkins releasing kidnapped negroes
Chapter XV. John Bunday was an employee of the Anti-Slavery League
Chapter XVI. Thomas Jefferys
Chapter XVII. John Dole
Chapter XVIII. Beechers view of the Fugitive Slave Law
Chapter XIX. John and Pete Munday
Chapter XX. Rev. Hiram Hunter releasing kidnapped negroes
Chapter XXI. The kidnapping of Reube at Princeton, Indiana
Chapter XXII. A bluff that failed to work
Chapter XXIII. Joseph Montgomery liberating two kidnapped negroes
Chapter XXIV. Kidnapping one of Major Robbs hands at his mills near Hazleton, Indiana
Chapter XXV. An attempt to kidnap a barber at Petersburg, Indiana
Chapter XXVI. Two free negroes kidnapped west of Princeton, Indiana
Chapter XXVII. Job Turner
Chapter XVIII. John Davenport
Chapter XXIX. Interesting letters
Chapter XXX. Kidnapping the Gothard boys
Chapter XXXI. Those living in the Northwest Territory that owned slaves attempted to hold them by making emancipation and indenture papers
Chapter XXXII. A letter from John T. Hanover
Contents
Index
Back matter

   
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