{"id":174,"date":"2015-07-05T09:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T13:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2023-06-30T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:05:33","slug":"web-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/special-resources\/web-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by the student-faculty team from the House Divided Project at Dickinson College, this online research guide to the Underground Railroad aims to provide teachers, students and preservationists with easy access to a wide range of free digital tools that can assist in their important work on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S1MCmdn_63Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\">FEATURED WEBSITES<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.udmercy.edu\/archives\/special-collections\/?collectionSet=all&amp;collectionCode=baa\">Black Abolitionist Archive<\/a> (UDetroit\/Mercy)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/slavery\/\">Dickinson &amp; Slavery<\/a> (House Divided Project)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freedomonthemove.org\/\">Freedom on the Move<\/a> (Cornell)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/orgs\/1205\/index.htm\">Network to Freedom <\/a>(NPS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stampedes.dickinson.edu\/\">Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderland<\/a>s (NPS \/ Dickinson)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slavery &amp; Abolition<\/a> (Dickinson)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.sfasu.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/RSP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Runaway Slave Project<\/a> (East Texas Research Center)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>PRIMARY SOURCES<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Federal Laws and Codes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/constitution\/#!\/articles\/4\/essays\/124\/fugitive-slave-clause\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Constitution: Fugitive Slave Clause<\/a> (1787) with <a href=\"https:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/resource\/convention\/debates\/0828-2\/\">debate August 28, 1787<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=llac&amp;fileName=003\/llac003.db&amp;recNum=702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slave Act<\/a>\u00a0(1793)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/fugitive.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slave Act<\/a>\u00a0(1850)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/2012\/07\/14\/contraband-of-war\/\">Contraband of War<\/a> (1861)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/2012\/07\/14\/congressional-confiscation-acts\/\">Confiscation Acts<\/a> (1861-62)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedmen.umd.edu\/artwar.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revised Articles of War<\/a> (March 13, 1862)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=llcg&amp;fileName=067\/llcg067.db&amp;recNum=264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Repeal of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act<\/a>\u00a0(June 1864) with <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=llcg&amp;fileName=065\/llcg065.db&amp;recNum=771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate debate<\/a>\u00a0(April)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1841\/1841_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Amistad<\/a> (1841)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1792-1850\/1842\/1842_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prigg v. Pennsylvania<\/a> (1842)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1792-1850\/1847\/1847_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jones v. Van Zandt<\/a> (1847)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/51\/82\/case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strader v. Graham<\/a> (1851)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/55\/13\/case.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moore v. Illinois<\/a>\u00a0(1852)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1851-1900\/1856\/1856_0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dred Scott v. Sandford<\/a> (1857) with <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/course-syllabus-2\/part-1-coming-of-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multi-media resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1851-1900\/1858\/1858_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ableman v. Booth<\/a> (1859)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State\u00a0Laws<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/perspectives\/pacific-bound-california-s-1852-fugitive-slave-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California fugitive slave law<\/a> (1852)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.niu.edu\/1996\/iht329602.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois black codes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iptv.org\/iowapathways\/mypath.cfm?ounid=ob_000250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iowa black codes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slavery.msa.maryland.gov\/html\/antebellum\/histlaw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland fugitive statutes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.usembassy.de\/etexts\/democrac\/20.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massachusetts personal liberty law<\/a> (1855)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/pennsylvania-personal-liberty-law-1826\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania personal liberty law<\/a> (1826)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiomemory.org\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/siebert\/id\/27403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vermont personal liberty law<\/a> (1843)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Case Compilations\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Finkelman, ed., <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4ZnVfPAfR_8C&amp;lpg=PA497&amp;ots=9UwfWKWFPS&amp;dq=daggs%20case%201848&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slaves and American Courts<\/a> (2007)<\/li>\n<li>Samuel J. May, ed.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/fugitiveslavelaw1856mays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims<\/a> (1856)<\/li>\n<li>Marion Gleason McDougall,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_9X-kENtGzIC&amp;lpg=PA66&amp;ots=78Zp_6ousk&amp;dq=1840%20new%20york%20personal%20liberty%20law&amp;pg=PA7#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slaves, 1619-1865<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>(1891)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vigilance committee and other contemporary records<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/primaryresearch.org\/bostons-reaction-to-the-fugitive-slave-law-through-the-boston-vigilance-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vigilance\u00a0accounts (1850-55)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New York: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu\/exhibits\/show\/fugitives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydney Gay&#8217;s Record of Fugitives (1855)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia: <a href=\"https:\/\/hsp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pmhbvigilantcommitteereading.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Record of Cases\u00a0(1839-44)<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hsp.org\/history-online\/digital-history-projects\/pennsylvania-abolition-society-papers\/journal-c-of-station-no-2-william-still-1852-1857-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal C, Station 2 (1852-57)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>William Still,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underground Railroad<\/a> (1872) with <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/c.php?g=77805&amp;p=515005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McGowan Index<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/stillfamily.library.temple.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temple U<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/jireh-platt-ugrr-diary-1848-1859\/\">Jireh Platt UGRR diary (1848-59)<\/a> (NPS \/ Dickinson)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.huntington.org\/digital\/collection\/p16003coll17\/id\/108\/\">Zachariah Shugart Account Book (1838-1854)<\/a> (Huntington Library)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Government Records &amp; Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dbs.ohiohistory.org\/africanam\/html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African American Experience in Ohio<\/a> (Ohio History)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/laslave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro-Louisiana History, 1719-1820<\/a> (Gwendolyn Hall)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvculture.org\/history\/wvmemory\/imlsintro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Brown \/ Boyd Stutler Collection<\/a> (West Virginia)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/amlaw\/lwcg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Century of Lawmaking \/ Congressional Globe<\/a> (LoC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deathpenaltyusa.org\/usa1\/no_murder_or_rape\/1826-1850.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executions 1826-1850<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/deathpenaltyusa.org\/usa1\/no_murder_or_rape\/1851-1900.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1851-1900<\/a> (Death Penalty USA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverfreedmen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau Records<\/a> (NARA \/ FamilySearch)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedmen.umd.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedmen &amp; Society Society Project<\/a> (UMaryland)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/collections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History<\/a> (GLI)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberdriveillinois.com\/departments\/archives\/databases\/servant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois Servitude &amp; Emancipation Records<\/a> (IL Secy State)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.territorialkansasonline.org\/~imlskto\/cgi-bin\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Territorial Kansas Online, 1854-1861<\/a> (Kansas State Historical)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsgames.com\/research\/authors\/USWarDept\/ORA\/OR-S2-V1-C4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Records: War of Rebellion &#8211;Fugitive Slaves 1861-62<\/a> (Simmons)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.uncg.edu\/slavery\/petitions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race &amp; Slavery Petitions<\/a> (UNC\/Greensboro)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurance.ca.gov\/01-consumers\/150-other-prog\/10-seir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slavery Era Insurance Registry<\/a> (State of California)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu\/about-circuit-court-files.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Louis Circuit Court Freedom Suit Files<\/a> (Missouri Archives)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slavevoyages.org\/tast\/index.faces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transatlantic Slave Trade Database<\/a> (Emory)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Letters &amp; Diaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/collection\/frederick-douglass-papers\/about-this-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frederick Douglass Papers <\/a>(LoC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln <\/a>\u00a0(ALA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org\/Search.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln<\/a>\u00a0(PAL)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/alhtml\/malhome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abraham Lincoln Papers<\/a> (LoC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln3\/1:113?iel=4;rgn=div1;view=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AL\u00a0to Chase 6\/9<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/r?ammem\/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d0174800))\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chase to AL 6\/13<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln3\/1:117?iel=4;rgn=div1;view=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AL to Chase 6\/20<\/a>\u00a0on fugitive law\u00a0(1859)<\/li>\n<li>AL to Schuyler Colfax <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln3\/1:122?iel=4;rgn=div1;view=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;for your eye only&#8221;<\/a> July 6 (1859) with <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/r?ammem\/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d0177300))\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colfax reply<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/r?ammem\/mal:@field(DOCID+@lit(d0494600))\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Gilmer to AL<\/a>, Dec. 1860 with <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/l\/lincoln\/lincoln4\/1:236?iel=4;rgn=div1;view=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AL reply on personal liberty laws<\/a> (1860)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=owen%20lovejoy%20letters&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Owen Lovejoy Letters &amp; Writings<\/a> (Ed. by William &amp; Jane Moore, 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=m8ZeFr7nc1wC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=Black%20Abolitionist%20Papers&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Witness for Freedom: African American Voices<\/a> (Ed. by Ripley\/Finkenbine 1993)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trilogy.brynmawr.edu\/speccoll\/quakersandslavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quakers &amp; Slavery<\/a> (Bryn Mawr\/Haverford\/Swarthmore)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Speeches &amp; Pamphlets<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frederick Douglass, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.rochester.edu\/index.cfm?PAGE=4385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slave Law speech to Free Soil Convention<\/a> (1852)<\/li>\n<li>Charles D. Drake,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=P2wFAAAAQAAJ&amp;dq=personal%20liberty%20law&amp;pg=PA185#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Liberty Laws<\/a> (1861)<\/li>\n<li>Samuel G. Howe, <a href=\"http:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=miun.ack4846.0001.001;view=1up;seq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Refugees from Canada<\/a> (1864)<\/li>\n<li>Abraham Lincoln, <a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/lincoln1.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Inaugural Address<\/a> (1861)<\/li>\n<li>Samuel J. May, ed.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/fugitiveslavelaw1856mays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims<\/a> (1856)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.cornell.edu\/m\/mayantislavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Pamphlets<\/a> (Cornell)<\/li>\n<li>Joel Parker, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=iyw0AQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=joel%20parker's%20personal%20liberty%20laws&amp;pg=PP7#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Liberty Laws<\/a> (1861)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Purvis <a href=\"http:\/\/research.udmercy.edu\/digital_collections\/baa\/Purvis_18449spe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denouncing David Paul Brown, Sr<\/a>. (1857)<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Tappen, <a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slave Bill and James Hamlet<\/a> (1850)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/ammem\/sthtml\/sthome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slaves and the Courts<\/a> (LoC)<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Daniel Webster <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=F70vAQAAMAAJ&amp;lpg=PA223&amp;ots=iCe7dIMa0E&amp;dq=Daniel%20Webster%20There%20is%20no%20danger%20of%20any%20such%20violation%20being%20perpetrated&amp;pg=PA222#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on proposed fugitive law<\/a>, July 17 (1850)<\/li>\n<li>Justice Levi Woodbury, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ciwEAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA429&amp;ots=OTHebH_2cj&amp;dq=levi%20woodbury%20fugitive%20slave&amp;pg=PA355#v=onepage&amp;q=fugitive&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charge to Grand Jury<\/a> (1851)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Recollections<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Henry &#8220;Box&#8221; Brown, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/boxbrown\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narrative with Stearns<\/a> (1849), <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/brownbox\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">By Himself<\/a> (1851)<\/li>\n<li>William Wells Brown, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/brown47\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narrative<\/a> (1847)<\/li>\n<li>Levi Coffin, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/nc\/coffin\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reminiscences<\/a> (1880)<\/li>\n<li>William and Ellen Craft, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/craft\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Running a Thousand Miles<\/a> (1860)<\/li>\n<li>Frederick Douglass, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/douglass\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narrative<\/a> (1845), <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/douglass55\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Bondage<\/a> (1855), <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/douglasslife\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life &amp; Times<\/a> (1881)<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Drew,<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/drew\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> A North-Side View of Slavery<\/a> (1856)<\/li>\n<li>Harriet Jacobs, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/jacobs\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/a> (1860)<\/li>\n<li>Jermain W. Loguen, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/loguen\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rev. J.W. Loguen as Slave and Freeman<\/a> (1859)<\/li>\n<li>Solomon Northup, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/northup\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twelve Years a Slave<\/a> (1853)<\/li>\n<li>James W.C. Pennington,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/penning49\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Blacksmith<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>(1849)<\/li>\n<li>William Still,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underground Railroad<\/a> (1872) with <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/c.php?g=77805&amp;p=515005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McGowan Index<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/stillfamily.library.temple.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temple U<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Peter Still with Kate E. R. Pickard, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/pickard\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Kidnapped and the Ransomed<\/a> (1856)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North American Slave Narratives<\/a> (DocSouth \/ UNC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~HYPER\/wpa\/wpahome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slave Narratives: Online Anthology<\/a> (UVA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/snhtml\/snhome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slave Narratives from WPA (1936-38)<\/a> (LoC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/imls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Homefront, 1861-1865<\/a> (DocSouth \/ UNC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cdm267401.cdmhost.com\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/siebert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Siebert Underground Railroad Collection<\/a> (Ohio History)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Arts and Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Wells Brown, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BlcN9bh0y34C&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Escape&#8221;<\/a> (1858) with <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalhumanitiescenter.org\/pds\/maai\/enslavement\/text8\/wwbrownrunaway.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handout<\/a>\u00a0(NHC)<\/li>\n<li>Ellwood Griest, <a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0136.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John and Mary, or The Fugitive Slaves<\/a> (1873)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org\/utc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/utc.iath.virginia.edu\/uncletom\/uthp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/a>\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/history-by-era\/literature-and-language-arts\/essays\/uncle-tom%E2%80%99s-cabin-and-matter-influence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay<\/a> (GLI)<\/li>\n<li>John Greenleaf Whittier, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/a\/amverse\/BAE0044.0001.001?view=toc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-Slavery Poems<\/a> (1848-88)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classroomelectric.org\/volume2\/folsom\/fugitive\/index-whitman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walt Whitman and Fugitive Slave Law<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">SECONDARY SOURCES<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Harriet Tubman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=9f5-Kg5DgbsC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=catherine%20clinton%20tubman&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biography by Catherine Clinton<\/a>\u00a0(2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=0-IUC00guXEC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=kate%20larson%20tubman&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biography by Kate Larson<\/a> (2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=iqmSvk19TnsC&amp;lpg=PA371&amp;dq=harriet%20tubman%20milton%20humez&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q=harriet%20tubman%20milton%20humez&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memory study by Milton Sernett<\/a> (2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/aa\/tubman\/aa_tubman_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America&#8217;s Library Tubman Profile<\/a> (for younger students)<\/li>\n<li>TEACHABLE DOC:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/letter_dec1854.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revealing letter about Tubman&#8217;s operations<\/a> (1854)<\/li>\n<li>TEACHABLE DOC:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/letter_march1857.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early letter calls Tubman a &#8220;hero&#8221;<\/a> (1857)<\/li>\n<li>TEACHABLE DOC:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/legislative\/features\/claim-of-harriet-tubman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubman&#8217;s Civil War pension claim<\/a> (1898)<\/li>\n<li>ARTIFACTS: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsdesk.si.edu\/snapshot\/harriet-tubman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubman relics at Smithsonian<\/a>\u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/harriet-tubmans-amazing-grace-53824293\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQ85z9vggYM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CASE: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/undergroundrailroadhistory.org\/page_id46\/page_id94\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Nalle<\/a> (Troy, NY, 1860) with <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/15049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news report<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=v0kF3N4Dm7gC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=freeing%20charles&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/harriet\/harriet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myth-making biography\u00a0by Sarah H. Bradford<\/a>\u00a0(1886)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hatu\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPS Historic Site<\/a> (Cambridge, MD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VOxGbpGxIkk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myths, Memory, Folklore and Monuments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NY Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/learning\/teachers\/featured_articles\/20070124wednesday.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide&#8221;<\/a> (2007)<\/li>\n<li>Fergus Bordewich on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/02\/opinion\/02bordewich.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quilt code myths<\/a> (2007)<\/li>\n<li>Leigh Fellner website \/ e-book on <a href=\"http:\/\/ugrrquilt.hartcottagequilts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UGRR Quilt Code<\/a>\u00a0(2006)<\/li>\n<li>Joel Bresler website on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.followthedrinkinggourd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow the Drinking Gourd myths<\/a> (2008-12)<\/li>\n<li>Scholastic on <a href=\"http:\/\/teacher.scholastic.com\/activities\/bhistory\/underground_railroad\/myths.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myths of the Underground Railroad<\/a> (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Kytle and Carl Geissert on <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/27\/myth-reality-and-the-underground-railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post-war UGRR memories<\/a>\u00a0(2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Classroom Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LESSONS:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiu.edu\/eiutps\/underground_railroad.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teaching with Primary Sources<\/a> (EIU \/ LoC)<\/li>\n<li>LESSONS: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/lesson_plans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K-12 units<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/fugitive_notices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Runaway Ads<\/a>\u00a0(House Divided)<\/li>\n<li>GAMES:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780\/projects\/flighttofreedom\/intro.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flight to Freedom simulation<\/a>\u00a0(Bowdoin College)<\/li>\n<li>GAMES:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.com\/education\/underground-railroad-interactive\/?ar_a=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underground Railroad interactive<\/a> (National Geographic)<\/li>\n<li>GAMES:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/teacher.scholastic.com\/activities\/bhistory\/underground_railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escape from Slavery<\/a> (Scholastic)<\/li>\n<li>REF:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/view\/vignettes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlackPast.org: \u00a0Online Guide to African American History<\/a> (2007-)<\/li>\n<li>REF: Mary Ellen Snodgrass, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SWusBwAAQBAJ&amp;lpg=PA44&amp;ots=kPnEY82n1O&amp;dq=austin%20bearse%20slave%20hunting&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q=austin%20bearse%20slave%20hunting&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underground Railroad Encyclopedia<\/a> (2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Full Text Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joseph Borome,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hsp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pmhbvigilantcommitteereading.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Vigilant Committee\u00a0of Philadelphia&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0PMHB (1968)<\/li>\n<li>Larry Gara, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.psu.edu\/phj\/article\/view\/22779\/22548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;William Still and the Underground Railroad,&#8221;<\/a> Pa History (1961)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Wayne, <a href=\"http:\/\/hssh.journals.yorku.ca\/index.php\/hssh\/article\/view\/16644\/15502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Black Population of Canada West,&#8221;<\/a> HS\/SH (1995)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Finkelman, <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.duke.edu\/faculty_scholarship\/2641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;States&#8217; Rights, Southern Hypocrisy,&#8221;<\/a> Akron Law Rev (2012)<\/li>\n<li>Harold Schwartz, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primaryresearch.org\/pr\/dmdocuments\/bh_schwartz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Fugitive Slave Days in Boston,&#8221;<\/a> New Eng Q (1954)<\/li>\n<li>Julius Yanuck, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.psu.edu\/pmhb\/article\/view\/42413\/42134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Force Act in Pennsylvania,&#8221;<\/a> PMHB (1968)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Classic Scholarship (Full View)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah H. Bradford, <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/harriet\/harriet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harriet: The Moses of Her People<\/a>\u00a0(1886)<\/li>\n<li>Frank Edward Kittredge, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/manwithbrandedh00kittgoog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Man with the Branded Hand<\/a> (1899)<\/li>\n<li>Marion Gleason McDougall,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_9X-kENtGzIC&amp;lpg=PA66&amp;ots=78Zp_6ousk&amp;dq=1840%20new%20york%20personal%20liberty%20law&amp;pg=PA7#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fugitive Slaves, 1619-1865<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>(1891)<\/li>\n<li>Wilbur H.\u00a0Siebert, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4C4OAAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=hart%20underground%20railroad&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Underground Railroad<\/a> (1899) with <a href=\"http:\/\/cdm267401.cdmhost.com\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/siebert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collection<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/dnr\/historic\/4121.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Index<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R.C. Smedley, <a href=\"http:\/\/deila.dickinson.edu\/slaveryandabolition\/title\/0089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History of the Underground Railroad<\/a> (1883)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Last modified in June 2023<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by the student-faculty team from the House Divided Project at Dickinson College, this online research guide to the Underground Railroad aims to provide teachers, students and preservationists with easy access to a wide range of free digital tools that can assist in their important work on this topic. 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