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  • Adventure at the mill / by Barbara and Heather Bramwell ; illustrated by William Lytle.

    • Text
    • New York : St Martin's Press, 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc C 84-120Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Unwelcome guests [microform] : American fugitive slaves in Canada, 1830-1860 / by Jason Howard Silverman.

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    • 1981
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-4522Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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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
    • 1 Item
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  • The Underground Railroad from slavery to freedom. With an introd. by Albert Bushnell Hart.

    • Text
    • New York, Russell & Russell [1967]
    • 1967-1898
    • 1 Item

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  • The slave catchers; enforcement of the Fugitive slave law, 1850-1860 [by] Stanley W. Campbell.

    • Text
    • Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text IEC 71-672Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121
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  • The Under-ground Railroad, by W. M. Mitchell.

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    • Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1970]
    • 1970-1860
    • 1 Item
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    Text IEC 72-924Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text IEC 72-1243Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text IEC 72-2388Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.92-P (Pennington, J. Fugitive blacksmith)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Boston slave riot, and trial of Anthony Burns. New foreword by Donald Franklin Joyce.

    • Text
    • Northbrook, Ill., Metro Books, 1972.
    • 1972-1854
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.973F-B (Boston slave riot)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc B-Douglass (Bontemps, A. Free at last)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc Rare D 14-2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Fic (Seelye, J. True adventures of Huckleberry Finn)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 3 Items
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    Text C-14 190Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc B-Ward, S. (Ward, S. Autobiography of a fugitive Negro. 1968)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc C 94-62Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • And forever free ...

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    • New York, Knopf [1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Fic (Williamson, J. And forever free)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Harriet Tubman.

    • Text
    • New York : P.S. Eriksson, [c1969]
    • 1969-1943
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc B-Tubman, H. (Conrad, E. Harriet Tubman. 1969)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text JLD 73-3108Offsite
  • Grant, John N. Chesapeake Blacks who immigrated to New Brunswick, 1815.

    • Text
    • 1972
  • 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.

    • Text
    • London, C. Gilpin, 1852.
    • 1852
    • 1 Item

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    Text Sc Micro R-862Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-899 [pt. 1-K]Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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.

    • Text
    • Boston, J. B. Yerrington and son, Printers, 1855.
    • 1855
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-899 [pt. 1-K]Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, by L. Maria Child.

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    • New York, Dodd Mead [1881]
    • 1881
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-896Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-166 Ser. 2 no. 13-24Schomburg 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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-166 Ser. 2 no. 1-12Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The fugitive slave law, and its victims.

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    • [New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1856]
    • 1856
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-166 Ser. 1 no. 1-20Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-166 Ser. 2 no. 13-24Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.973-S (Schwartz, R. Across the Rio to freedom)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Maroon societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas.

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    • Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.97-P (Price, R. Maroon societies)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.973F-P (Pease, J. M. Fugitive slave law and Anthony Burns)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.973F-C (Craft, W. Running a thousand miles for freedom)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Barclay, [1860]
    • 1860
    • 1 Item

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    Text Sc Micro R-1960Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-1960Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc B-Henson, J. (Cavanah, F. Truth about the man)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc D 19-895Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.975-W (Walker, J. Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker. 1974)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 326.972F-F (Fouchard, J. Marrons de la liberté)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 3 Items
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    Text Sc Micro R-2100 r. 1Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc Micro R-2100 r. 3Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Across the Rio to freedom : U. S. Negroes in Mexico / by Rosalie Schwartz. - El Paso : Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, [1974] c1975. 64 p. ; 23 cm.

    • Text
    • 1974
  • La cabaña del tío Tom.

    • Text
    • Barcelona, R. Sopena, 1940.
    • 1940
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc B 77-14Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc C 77-182Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • In memory of Edwin Channing Larned.

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    • Chicago : A. C. McClurg, 1886.
    • 1886
    • 4 Items

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    Text AN (Larned) (Larned, E. C. In memory of Edwin Channing Larned)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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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
    • 2 Items
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    Text JLC 77-301Offsite
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    Text Sc C 87-386Schomburg 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
    • 1 Item
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    Text IIR 78-586Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Anthony Burns, a history.

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    • New York, Arno Press, 1969.
    • 1969-1856
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 78-2216Schwarzman 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.

    • Text
    • London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Cincinnati, Ohio, Western tract society, 1879.
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZAN-T3340 reel 375 no. 2599.1-2608Offsite
  • Underground railroad in Tompkins County [microform] [and] North Star: a poem, by Sydney H. Gallwey.

    • Text
    • Ithaca, N. Y., published by the author in cooperation with DeWitt Historica Society of Tompkins County, 1963.
    • 1963
  • 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 ...

    • Text
    • Vergennes, Vt., E. W. Blaisdell, 1845.
    • 1845
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZAN-T3340 reel 233 no. 1548.1-1558Offsite
  • 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....

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, W. Still, 1883.
    • 1883
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZAN-T3340 reel 490 no. 3678-3682Offsite
  • The underground railroad in Massachusetts / by Wilbur H. Siebert.

    • Text
    • Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, 1936.
    • 1936
    • 2 Items
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    Text IIR (Siebert, W. H. Underground railroad in Massachusetts)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text Sc E 80-116Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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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.

    • Text
    • Boston : Stacy & Richardson, 1861.
    • 1861
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro F-7055Schomburg 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
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Micro R-3818Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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