The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad

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INDEX Abolitionism Unveiled, 152 Abolitionists: as heroes of underground railroad, 11--4; aided runaways , 5H2, 88-90. and passim; racial attitudes, 64; disagreements among, 69, 72-78, 81-84, 121-22; early efforts to aid slaves, 70-72; opposed john Brown, 87-88; and Negro migration to Canada, 103-104; prosecutions of, 108-109, 112. 113, 134-40; propaganda activities, 115-42 passim; portrayed in fiction. 151-52; postwar writings, 168-78; postwar conventions , 183-84 Adams, Charles Francis, 128 Adams, john Quincy, 116 Advertisements for fugitive slaves, 36, 43 Africa, 8, 31 Alabama, 20, 22, 24, 35. 48, 152, 153 Albany, N.Y., 44, 93, 109.145 Alton, Ill., 11 American Anti-Slavery Society, 40, 7476 passim. 131 American Colonization Society, 31 Anderson. John, 60-61 Anti-Negro legislation in the North, 63 .Antislavery. See abolitionists Anti·Slavery Bugle, 38, 103-104. 129-30 Anti·Slavery Fair. New York. N.Y.• 75 Anti-Slavery League of Indiana, 172 Arkansas, 155 Armstrong, james W., 55 Ashtabula County, Ohio, 179 Atlanta, Ga., 141 Badger. George E., 83 Bahamas, 86 Bailey, Gamaliel, 38-39 Ball, Charles, 123 Baltimore: 25, 49,51, 110; Sun, 153 Baraboo, Wis., 147 Barrow, Bennet H., 27 Bearse, Austin, 107 Beveridge, John L., 183 Bibb,Henry,47,53,66, 120, 149 Bingey. Anthony. 52-53 Birney, James G., 91 Bissell, William H., 82-83 Blanchard,jonathan, 183 Bloomfield. Ind., 88 Bond County, Ill., 88 Booth. Sherman M., 103, I13, 135-36 Boston: 54. 62, 72, 73. 77, 83, 94. 102, 103. 122, 124, 158; race discrimination in, 65; Female Anti-Slavery Society , 74; Vigilance Committee, 106109 ; slave renditions in, 108-109, 115-16; Courier, 162 Bradford, England. 121 Breyfogle. William: Make Free, 12-13 1!assim British Isles, 161. See also England Brooke, Walker,140 Brown, Henry "Box." 49-50, 120-22 passim Brown, John, 13. 16,87-88. 181 Brown, josephine, 64 Brown, William Wells, 45. 73, 120. 122, 123 Brownson's Boston Quarterly Review, 128 Buchanan, James. 136, 138 Buckmaster, Henrietta: Let My People Go, 12-13 passim Buffalo, 60, 64-65 Bunyan, Paul, 2 Burke, G. W., 144 Burlington, Vt., Tribune, 145 Burns, Anthony. 11, 51. 72, 108-109, 158 Butler, Andrew Pickens, 129, 189 Butler, Marvin Benjamin. 171-73 passim Calhoun, John C., 154 California, 184 Camp meetings, 45 Canaan. See Promised Land Canada: 53; as destination of fugitive slaves, 8, 36,45, 48, 60, 62. 74, 75, 85, 89,91,93,100,106,109, Ill, 112, 113, 124, 144, 145, 146, 150, 153, 154, 16063 passim, 168, 171, 174, 185, 188. 189, 191; as the Promised Land, 13; 196 Canada (continued): Negro population in, 37-38; refugees in, 65--67, 117, 149, 151; exodus of Negroes to, 103-104 Carlisle, Pa., 159 Carpenter, Joseph, 94 Cass County, Mich., 30 Cattaraugus County, N.Y., 171 Cecil County, Md., 156 Cedar Township, Iowa, 32 Census reports: on manumission, 30; Canadian, 37-38; on fugitive slaves, 37-40 Chace, Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum, 64 Chambersburg, Pa., 11 Channing, Edward,189-90 Chapman, Maria W., 75-76 Charleston, S.C.: 28; Mercury, 127, 155 Chase, Salmon P., 63,139 Chester County, Pa., 96-99 passim Chicago: 61, 73, 90, 102, 156, 174; Western Citizen, 73, 144; slave rescues in, 109-110, 116-17; Tribune, 146-47; abolitionist convention in, 183 Child, Lydia Maria, 94, 166 Christiana, Pa., riot, 113, 134-35, 141, 174 Cincinnati: I, 32, 50, 83, 91, IlO, 159, 160, 174; Enquirer, 9, 137, 150; fugitive aid in, 77-78, 93-96 passim, 117; Connelly case in, 137 Civil War: 143, 155, 163, 165; under· ground railroad and, 7, 179, 191, 193 Clarke, James Freeman: 171.186; AntiSlavery Days, 170 Clarke, Lewis, 59, 120 Clay, Henry, 1511 Cleveland: 59, 1011, 1119, 146, 148, 18081 ; Daily True Democrat, 1011, 144; Leader, 150 Clingman, Thomas L., 1511 Coates. Lindley, 97 Cockrum, William L., 168--69, 171, 172 Coffin. Addison, 81.172 Coffin, Joshua, 124 Coffin. Levi: I, 2, 12. 16, 56, 79, 81, 83, 97, 178. 186; visited refugees in Canada, 66--67; aided fugitives, 9396 passim, 115; Reminiscences, 17175 passim Columbia, Pa., 174, 179 Columbia Encyclofedia, 16-17 Columbian World s Fair, 18911, I Columbus. 144-45, 146 Compromise of 1850,711 Congress: 127. 1115; petitions to, 116; debates in, 152-53, 154-55 Conklin, Seth, 84-85 Connecticut, 89 Index Connelly, William M., 137-118 passim Corning, N.Y., 146 Corwin, Moses, 82 Coshocton, Ohio, 5 Covenanters, 81, 89 Craft, William and Ellen, 48-49, 107...