Edward Gorsuch's Original Fugitive Slave Petition and Ownership Docume...
Scope and content: Mr. Gorsuch requests permission of the court to seek out and recover his fugitive slaves: Noah Baley, Nelson Ford, George Hammond, Joshua Hammond, Eli Ford, and Charles Ford. The Court did g... More
Jacob Cook's Original Fugitive Slave Petition and Ownership Documentat...
Scope and content: Mr. Cook requests permission of the court to seek out and recover his fugitive slaves: Ellen Green, Matilda Green, John Green, and Andrew Jones.
'The Fugitive Slave' by John Adam Plimmer Houston
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The underground rail road - a record of facts, authentic narratives, l...
Identifier: undergroundrailr1872stil (find matches) Title: The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles... More
Contraband foreground. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.
Stereograph showing Capt. B.S. Brown (left); Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F 2nd Regt. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry (center); and Lt. Fry (right) with African American men and boy at Camp Brightwood, D.C.. No. 2062,... More
One of the pioneers in the Underground Movement in Philadelphia and Ne...
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Caves in Salem township, Washington County, Ohio; The cave on the left...
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Emily runs away. - A black and white advertisement for a reward
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Deposition of Peter McNelly given before Judge George Turner, Knox Cou...
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The Contraband schottische - American Civil War sheet music
tear in cover page
A group of "contrabands". American Civil War 1861-1865.
Stereograph showing a group of seven African American men, former slaves, dressed in old Union uniforms standing in front of a wagon and shack. No. 2594. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War ... More
Jesse L. Berch, quartermaster sergeant, 22 Wisconsin Regiment of Racin...
Photograph showing Jesse L. Berch, left, and Frank M. Rockwell, right, standing, with their guns drawn, and an African American woman sitting between them, full-length portrait, facing front. [Identification of... More
[Bell rack in museum in Mobile, Ala.]
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Letter from Charles Sumner, [Boston, Massachusetts], to Maria Weston C...
Charles Sumner writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to fugitive slaves. He writes, "It may not be deemed expedient for the bar to adopt a rule according to which each member shall refuse his professional a... More
[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahe...
Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being... More
Uncle Tom's cabin for children - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
James Hamlet, captured under Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, October 17, 1850
Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Contraband camp - Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Washington DC sterescope c...
Stereograph shows tent camp occupied by escaped slaves. No. 379. Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).
Indenture made by Henry Vanderburgh for Peter McNelly, Knox County, Te...
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Gordon as he entered our lines. Gordon under medical inspection. Gordo...
Gordon, a runaway slave from Mississippi, in tattered clothes; bare back showing scars; and in Union Civil War uniform. From photographs by McPherson & Oliver. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 July 4, p. 429, bottom.
The fugitive's song - Public domain print
A sheet music cover illustrated with a portrait of prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a runaway slave. Douglass flees barefoot from two mounted pursuers who appear across the river behind him w... More
Stampede among the Negroes in Virginia - their arrival at Fortress Mon...
Print shows fugitive slaves arriving at the gate to Fortress Monroe, Virginia, seeking the protection of the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil War. Caption: Fugitive slaves approaching the Federal senti... More
A group of "contrabands" - 19th century Virginia.
Stereograph showing a group of slaves including men, women and children gathered outside a building at the Foller Plantation in Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey Run, Virginia. No. 383. Part of series: The War for t... More
Routes through Indiana and Michigan in 1848. As traced by Lewis Falle...
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Anthony Burns / drawn by Barry from a daguereotype [sic] by Whipple & ...
Print shows a portrait of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 touched off riots and protests by abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 18... More
Henry Box Brown - Public domain portrait engraving
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Fellow citizens of Massachusetts! : Read and consider
This broadside publicizes the arrest of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia and made his way to Boston where, on May 24th, 1854, he was arrested. While he was awaiting trial fo... More
The head of the canal, opposite Vicksburg, Miss., now being cut by Com...
Print shows Union troops and contrabands constructing a canal near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 16, no. 391 (1863 March 28), p. 8-9.
Civil War veteran John W. Pollard, who served under the name of Privat...
Photograph shows portrait of identified Union veteran John W. Pollard, formerly known as Jackson Ridgway or Wridgway, who had been an escaped slave. Notation on verso: "J.W. Pollard, May 30, 1906, after parade... More
The underground rail road - a record of facts, authentic narratives, l...
Identifier: undergroundrailr1872stil (find matches) Title: The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles... More
Group of contrabands at Allen's farm house near Williamsburg Road, in ...
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William Still; The underground railroad.
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A crossing place for fugitive slaves on the Ohio River, at Steubenvill...
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House of the Rev. John Rankin, Ripley, Ohio
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The mayor and police of Norfolk searching Captain Fountain's schooner;...
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Harriet Tubman. - Public domain portrait
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Deposition of Luke Decker before Judge James Johnson, Knox County, Ter...
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William Berryman - Maroon. Buckra reading their pass
Drawing shows a white man (Buckra) reading the pass of Maroons (runaway slaves) on a road. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.
The plot exploded! : John H. Pearson & the bloodhounds : the Vigilance...
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Henry Highland Garnett. - A black and white photo of a man in a suit
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The underground rail road - a record of facts, authentic narratives, l...
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Charity Still - twice escaped from slavery.
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Running away. (see page 345) - Public domain dedication image
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House of Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace; A station of the Underground Rai...
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for ...
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Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Mary ...
James Miller McKim writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to his voyage back to the U.S. with Richard Davis Webb and of his time in New York before his return to Philadelphia. He writes of his editor of the "Pen... More
Civil War envelope showing slave master holding whip as slave attempts...
Addressed to John Heagy Esq., Highspire P.O., Dauphin Co., Penna. ; postmarked Hummelstown, Pa., September 25 ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) pp/liljmem
The underground railroad / Chas. T. Webber.
African Americans in wagon and on foot, escaping from slavery. 52844(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by Charles T. Webber in the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Leonard G. Quinlin's Original Fugitive Slave Petition and Ownership Do...
Scope and content: Mr. Quinlin requests permission of the court to seek out and recover his fugitive slave, Basil.
Ezra Greenleaf Weld (American - Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenov...
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The man is not bought! He is still in the slave pen in the courthouse!...
File name: 12_05_000001 Call no.: Cab.23.17.7 no.1 Title: The man is not bought! : He is still in the slave pen in the courthouse!... Created/Published: [Boston : s.n.] Date issued: 1850 - 1859 (questionable) P... More
The underground rail road - a record of facts, authentic narratives, l...
Identifier: undergroundrailr1872stil (find matches) Title: The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles... More
The underground rail road - a record of facts, authentic narratives, l...
Identifier: undergroundrailr1872stil (find matches) Title: The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles... More
Contrabands at headquarters of General Lafayette
Photograph shows a group of African American refugees with Union soldiers in front of General Lafayette's headquarters at Allen's farm house near Williamsburg Road. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 372. Entered accor... More
Contrabands on Mr. Foller's farm, Cumberland, May 14, 1862.
Stereograph showing a group of slaves including men, women and children gathered outside a building at the Foller Plantation in Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey Run, Virginia. No. 383. Part of series: Photographic ... More
Fall of Attucks. - Public domain portrait drawing
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Hon. Frederick Douglass.
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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The case of William L. Chaplin : being an appeal to all respecters of ...
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Thomas T. G. Pearce's Original Fugitive Slave Petition and Ownership D...
Scope and content: Mr. Pearce requests permission of the court to seek out and recover his fugitive slave, Lewis Johnson.
Gerrit Smith, M. C., the multi-millionaire, whose mansion in Peterboro...
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Harriet Tubman; "The Moses of her people"; Herself a fugitive, she abd...
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Arrival from Maryland, 1859; Ann Maria Jackson and her seven children.
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A runaway slave. - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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A group of "contrabands". American Civil War 1861-1865.
Stereograph showing a group of seven African American men, former slaves, dressed in old Union uniforms standing in front of a wagon and shack. No. 2594. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War ... More
Contraband schottisch - American Civil War sheet music
Music associated with the Confederate side
[Bell rack on model, museum in Mobile, Ala.]
10143B. Caption: The bell rack. Contraption used by an Alabama slave owner to guard a runaway slave. This rack was originally topped by a bell which rang when the runaway attempted to leave the road and go thro... More
[Civil War envelope showing fugitive slaves working as sappers and min...
Addressed to Miss Nancy Corss, East Smithfield, Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem
[Underground railroad map of the United States, ca. 1838-1860.
Scale not given. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and pencil. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
WSM 008 The Successful Man Hunt
The Successful Man Hunt
Contraband foreground. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.
Stereograph showing Capt. B.S. Brown (left); Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F 2nd Regt. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry (center); and Lt. Fry (right) with African American men and boy at Camp Brightwood, D.C.. No. 2062,... More
Argument of Wendell Phillips, esq., before the Committee on Federal Re...
"Printed from the phonographic report of J. M. W. Yerrinton, revised and enlarged by Mr. Phillips." The removal of Loring was sought because of his decision returning Anthony Burns to slavery. Also available in... More
Seize him! Seize him! - Public domain dedication image
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for ...
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[Bell rack as displayed in museum - Mobile, Alabama]
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The Fugitive slave law. [Hartford, Ct.? : s.n., 185-?]
Text of the law.; Includes "Synopsis of the law," critical of the legislation, signed by S.M. Africanus, Hartford, Ct., and poem in three parts.; Fugitive slaves--United States.; Slavery--United States.; Afric... More
Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," showing his scarr...
Printed on verso: "From life, taken at Baton Rouge, La., April 2d, 1863." On verso: Facsimile of original medical report to Colonel L.B. Marsh from J.W. Mercer, assistant surgeon with the 47th Massachusetts Vo... More