Wilbur Henry Siebert

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS, PORTRAITS, FACSIMILES AND MAPS

PREFACE

CHAPTER I SOURCES OF THE HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

CHAPTER II ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE UNDERGROUND ROAD

CHAPTER III THE METHODS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

CHAPTER IV UNDERGROUND AGENTS, STATION-KEEPERS, OR CONDUCTORS

CHAPTER V STUDY OF THE MAP OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SYSTEM

CHAPTER VI ABDUCTION OF SLAVES FROM THE SOUTH

CHAPTER VII LIFE OF THE COLORED REFUGEES IN CANADA

CHAPTER VIII FUGITIVE SETTLERS IN THE NORTHERN STATES

CHAPTER IX PROSECUTIONS OF UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MEN

CHAPTER X THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN POLITICS

CHAPTER XI EFFECT OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

APPENDIX A CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND NATIONAL ACTS RELATIVE

APPENDIX B LIST OF IMPORTANT FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES

APPENDIX C FIGURES FROM THE UNITED STATES CENSUS REPORTS RELATING TO FUGITIVE SLAVES

APPENDIX D BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 Unpublished Reminiscences

APPENDIX E DIRECTORY OF THE NAMES OF UNDERGROUND RAILROAD OPERATORS

INDEX

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD:
LEVI COFFIN RECEIVING A COMPANY OF FUGITIVES IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.
(From a painting by C. T. Webber, Cincinnati, Ohio.)

The
Underground Railroad
from Slavery to Freedom
A Comprehensive History

Wilbur H. Siebert

With an Introduction by
Albert Bushnell Hart

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
Mineola, New York

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is an unabridged republication of The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom, originally published by The Macmillan Company, New York and London, in 1898. The original fold-out map facing page 113 has now been set into the book on three separate pages in the same location.

International Standard Book Number: 0-486-45039-2

Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N. Y. 11501

To My Wife