Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery

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117 Abolitionists, 1–2, 14, 97; slaveholders’ fear of, 18, 27; southern attacks on, 57, 84; in West Indies, 26–27, 28 Adams, John, 105 (n. 6) Adams, Thomas J., 27–28 Advertisements for runaways, 8, 11–12, 91, 99; rewards offered in, 34, 41, 76, 80, 81–82, 95 Airs, Sarah, 85 Alberti, George, 62 Aldridge, Caroline, 15 Aleck (slave), 68–70, 83 Anderson, John (fugitive slave in Canada), 31 Anderson, John (fugitive slave in Jamaica), 23–24, 28–29 Anderson, John (kidnapper), 63 Anderson, William W., 26–27 Armstrong, James, 78, 114 (n. 17) Ashby, Thomas, 9, 14  Bahamas, 22 Baltimore, Md., 23, 53, 87; and Parker sisters case, 54–56, 58–59, 61 Banks, Henry W., 7–11, 14, 19–20 Barbados, 28 Barkley, Henry, 29–30 Bartlett, Ruben, 71 Bear, William, 54 Bell, John, 38, 39, 40, 42 Bennett, Samuel, 66 Bermuda, 22 Bibb, Henry, 11 Bigler, William, 45, 52, 59, 60, 61–62 Black communities, 64, 67; aid to slave escapes by, x, 2, 17, 72–73, 96–97; and Fugitive Slave Law, 48–49, 96; in Harrisburg, Pa., 32, 33, 37, 48–49, 67; kidnappings of free blacks in, 53–59; protection of fugitive slaves by, x, 10, 44–45, 48–49, 96; of southern free blacks, 83, 86–88, 89, 115 (n. 32) Border States, 77–78, 82–83 Boston, Mass., 27; Crafts in, ix, x, xi, 33, 44–45 Bradley, Henry, 35 Branton, William A., 47 Briggs, Thomas, 37 Index 118 :: INDEX Britain: U.S. relations with, 22, 30–31; West Indies colonies of, 22–31 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 31 Broadhaus, Irvin and Angeline, 90–91 Brocks, George, 32, 34, 36, 66 Brook, Susan, 15 Brown, Henry “Box,” 70 Brown, John (abolitionist), 51, 93 Brown, John (kidnapping victim), 64 Brown, Thomas, 71–72, 81 Buchanan, James M., 45 Buck, William M., 7–11 Buckner, Dick, 75 Bull, John, 15 Burleigh, C. C., 53, 58 Burns, Anthony, 27 Burrell, Lewis, 15 Bustill, Joseph, 65  Cambridge, Md., 16, 73 Campbell, James, 61, 62 Campbell, Walter L., 54–55 Canada, 15–17, 21, 82 Carter, W. Justin, 101 Cecelski, David, 17 Cheney, Edward, 64 Chester, Thomas Morris, 66 Christiana, Pa., shoot-out (1851), 9, 38–39, 41, 56, 89; political impact of, 45, 52, 59, 62 Christianson, Scott, 13 Clarke, George, 62–63 Clayton, John, 21 Clear Spring, Md., 8, 12 Colonial Standard, 28 Columbia, Pa., 32, 37, 43–44 Comet (ship), 22 Concklin, Seth, xi, 5–6 Connelly, William, 90–91 Cooper, Maria, 11 Cope, F. George, 17 Cornish, William, 20 Cotes, Edwin H., 106 (n. 20) Courts: hearings for fugitive slaves, 36–37, 39–41, 43, 46–47, 53; and protection of slave property, 83; testimony of blacks against whites not allowed in, 58–59, 83–84 Craft, William and Ellen, ix–x, xi, 33, 44–45 Creole (ship), 22 Cunningham, James, 73–74, 75–76  Davis, Jane, 18–19 Davis, Jefferson, 13 Day, William Howard, 101 Democratic Party, 98 Dickey, E. V., 57 Dickey, J. M., 58–59 Diggins, Milt, 111 (n. 38) Donnelly, Matthew, 55, 56 Du Bois, W. E. B., 20 Dunmore, Lord, 20  Early, Thomas, 66 Eggert, Gerald, 48, 63 Encomium (ship), 22 Enterprise (ship), 22 Epps, Mary, 18  Fairbank, Calvin, 72, 73–74, 81 Falmouth Post, 28 Fant, Henry T., 46 Fillmore, Millard, 35, 44 Fitzhugh, George, 88 Florida, 20 Fought, Leigh, 5 Francis, Lewis, 19 Franklin, John Hope, 18 Franklin, Robert, 37 Fugitive Slave Law, 32, 51–52, 53; black communities and, 44–45, 48–49, 96; commissioners’ enforcement INDEX :: 119 of, 35–36, 49, 50; opposition and resistance to, ix–x, 3–4, 27, 28–29, 46, 48–49, 99–100; provisions of, 3; support for, xi, 4–5, 52 Fugitive slaves: black communities’ protection of, x, 10, 48–49, 96; capture and return of, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 47–48, 49, 50, 62–63; court hearings for, 36–37, 39–41, 43, 46–47, 53; initiative in escapes taken by, xi, 2, 11, 76–77, 95–96; monuments to, 45–46, 100–101; slaveholders’ advertisements for, 8, 11–12, 34, 41, 76, 80, 81–82, 91, 95, 99; slavery apologists on abandonment of, 84– 85, 94–95; sympathy for in North, 67. See also Slave escapes  Gap (Pa.) Gang, 53–54 Gara, Larry, 2, 103 (n. 1) Gibbs, Mary, 72–73 Giddings, Joshua, 45–46 Gilland, Daniel, 62, 63...