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Books and articles compiled from the Further Reading recommendations of our Contributors<\/em><\/p>\n

Abbott, Elena K. Beacons of Liberty: International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

Baker, H. Robert. Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution<\/em>. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012.<\/p>\n

Barker, Gordon S. Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution, Eight Cases, 1848-1856<\/em>. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.<\/p>\n

Bartlett, Irving H. \u201cAbolitionists, Fugitives, and Imposters in Boston, 1846-47.\u201d New England Quarterly<\/em> 55 (March 1982): 97-110.<\/p>\n

Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War<\/em>. New York: Basic Books, 2020.<\/p>\n

Bentley, Judith. \u201cDear Friend\u201d: Thomas Garrett and William Still, Collaborators on the Underground Railroad<\/em>. New York: Cobblehill Books, 1997.<\/p>\n

Berlin, Ira, Steven P. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985-2013.<\/p>\n

Blackett, R. J. M. The Captive\u2019s Quest for Freedom: Resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

Blockson, Charles L., The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania<\/em>. Jacksonville, NC: Flame International, 1981.<\/p>\n

Bonner, Christopher. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship<\/em>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

Bordewich, Fergus M. Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America\u2019s First Civil Rights Movement<\/em>. New York: Amistad \/ HarperCollins, 2005.<\/p>\n

Brown-Kubisch, Linda. The Queen\u2019s Bush Settlement: Black Pioneers, 1839-1865<\/em>. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004.<\/p>\n

Byrd, Brandon R. The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti<\/em>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

Calarco, Tom. People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary<\/em>. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

Calarco, Tom and Don Papson, Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon, and the Record of Fugitives<\/em>. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.<\/p>\n

Campbell, Stanley W. The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970.<\/p>\n

Churchill, Robert H. The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n

Clavin, Matthew J. Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n

Click, Patricia C. Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen\u2019s Colony, 1862-1867<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin<\/em>. Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, 1879.<\/p>\n

Commander, Michelle D., ed. Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition<\/em>. New York: Penguin Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

Cornell, Sarah. “Citizens of Nowhere,\u201d: Fugitive Slaves and Free African Americans in Mexico, 1833-1857.” Journal of American History<\/em> 100 (Sept. 2013): 351-74.<\/p>\n

Cox, Anna-Lisa. The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality<\/em>. New York: Public Affairs, 2018.<\/p>\n

DeRamus, Betty. Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad<\/em>. New York: Atria Books, 2009.<\/p>\n

Diemer, Andrew K. Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad. <\/em>New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.<\/p>\n

Diouf, Sylviane. Slavery\u2019s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons<\/em>. New York: New York University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

Drew, Benjamin. A North Side View of Slavery: The Refugee<\/em>. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856.<\/p>\n

Epps, Kristen. Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras<\/em>. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

Finkenbine, Roy E. “The Underground Railroad in ‘Indian Country’: Northwest Ohio, 1795-1843.” In Damian Alan Pargas, ed. Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America<\/em>. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018.<\/p>\n

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery in the Courtroom<\/em>. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1985.<\/p>\n

Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson<\/em> (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge, 2014.<\/p>\n

Finkelman, Paul. Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation\u2019s Highest Court<\/em>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

Foner, Eric. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad<\/em>. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015.<\/p>\n

Forbes, Ella. But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance<\/em>. Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy, 1998.<\/p>\n

Franklin, John Hope and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad<\/em>. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1961.<\/p>\n

Grendler, Marcella, Andrew Leiter, and Jill Sexton, compilers. North American Slave Narratives. Guide to Religious Content in Slave Narratives.<\/em> https:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/religiouscontent.html<\/p>\n

Griffler, Keith P., Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley<\/em>. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.<\/p>\n

Grover, Kathryn. The<\/em> Fugitive’s Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts<\/em>. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.<\/p>\n

Gurza-Lavalle, Gerardo. \u201cAgainst Slave Power? Slavery and Runaway Slaves in Mexico-United States Relations, 1821-1857.\u201d Mexican Studies\/Estudios Mexicanos<\/em> 35 (Summer 2019): 143-70.<\/p>\n

Hagedorn, Ann, Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad<\/em>. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.<\/p>\n

Harrold, Stanley. Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865<\/em>. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press: 2003.<\/p>\n

Harrold, Stanley. Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Heerman, M. Scott. The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865<\/em>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

Hodges, Graham Russell Gao. David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Hunter, Carol M. To Set the Captives Free: Reverend Jermain Wesley Loguen and the Struggle for Freedom in Central New York 1835-1872<\/em>. New York: Garland, 1993.<\/p>\n

Jackson, Kellie Carter. Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence<\/em>. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

Kashatus, William C. William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia<\/em>. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance<\/em>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. <\/em>New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.<\/p>\n

Lubet, Steven. Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial<\/em>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Manning, Chandra. Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War<\/em>. New York: Knopf, 2016.<\/p>\n

Miller, Steve and J. Timothy Allen. Slave Escapes and the Underground Railroad in North Carolina<\/em>. Charleston: The History Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

Mitchell, William. The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom<\/em>. London: William Tweedie, 1860.<\/p>\n

Morris, Thomas D., Free Men All: The Personal Liberty Laws of the North, 1780-1861<\/em>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.<\/p>\n

Nichols, James David. “The Line of Liberty: Runaway Slaves and Fugitive Peons in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands.” Western Historical Quarterly<\/em> 44 (Winter 2013): 413-33.<\/p>\n

Oakes, James. The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution<\/em>. New York: W.W. Norton, 2021.<\/p>\n

Olsavsky, Jesse. \u201cRunaway Slaves, Militant Abolitionists, and the Critique of American Prisons, 1830-60.\u201d History Workshop Journal<\/em> (2021): 1-22.<\/p>\n

Pacheco, Josephine F. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.<\/p>\n

Pargas, Damian Alan, ed. Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America<\/em>. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018.<\/p>\n

Phillips, Christopher. Freedom\u2019s Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860<\/em>. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n

Prince, Bryan. A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family\u2019s Incredible Struggle for Freedom.<\/em>\u00a0Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2009.<\/p>\n

Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists.<\/em> New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.<\/p>\n

Reid, Richard. African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War<\/em>. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

Ripley, C. Peter, ed., The Black Abolitionist Papers, Vol. III & IV<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

Rivers, Larry Eugene. Runaways and Rebels: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida<\/em>. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013.<\/p>\n

Robbins, Arlie C. Legacy to Buxton<\/em>. North Buxton, Ontario: A. C. Robbins, 2013.<\/p>\n

Rose, Willie Lee. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment<\/em>. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

Schwartz, Rosalie. Across the Rio to Freedom: U.S. Negroes in Mexico<\/em>. El Paso: University of Texas Press, 1975.<\/p>\n

Sears, Richard D. Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History<\/em>. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.<\/p>\n

Sernett, Milton C. North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom<\/em>. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n

Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom<\/em>. New York: MacMillan, 1898.<\/p>\n

Sinha, Manisha. The Slave\u2019s Cause: A History of Abolition<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

Slaughter, Thomas P. Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and the Racial Violence in the Antebellum North<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

Smardz Frost, Karolyn. I\u2019ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad<\/em>. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.<\/p>\n

Smardz Frost, Karolyn and Veta Smith Tucker, eds. A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland<\/em>. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

Soike, Lowell J. Necessary Courage: Iowa\u2019s Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery<\/em>. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013.<\/p>\n

Still, William. The Underground Railroad.<\/em>\u00a0Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872.<\/p>\n

Taylor, Amy Murrell. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War\u2019s Slave Refugee Camps<\/em>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.<\/p>\n

Torrey, E. Fuller. The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey<\/em>. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n

Tyler, Ronnie C., “Fugitive Slaves in Mexico.” The Journal of Negro History<\/em> 57 (Jan 1972): 1-12.<\/p>\n

Walker, Cam. \u201cCorinth: The Story of a Contraband Camp.\u201d Civil War History<\/em> 20 (1974): 5-22.<\/p>\n

Walker, Timothy D., ed. Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad<\/em>. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

Winks, Robin W. The Blacks in Canada: A History<\/em>. Montreal: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n

Zirblis, Raymond Paul. Friends of Freedom: The Vermont Underground Railroad Survey Report<\/em>. Montpelier: Vermont Department of State Buildings and Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 1996.<\/p>\n

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