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Map Showing Free Black Population By County in Underground Railroad States (1860).
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The map above was composed of individual state maps generated by the Historical Census Browser, a resource provided by the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center at the University of Virginia (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus). It contains county-level results for 1860 drawn directly from the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.

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Philadelphia Detail Map

Key
Blue Diamond = prominent African-American Churches
Enclosed area = Seventh Ward (heaviest concentration of African Americans)
1. Vigilance Committee Office, 107 North 5th Street
2. William Still's residence (Chairman), 31 N.5th Street
3. William Wise (Treasurer), 5th and Market Streets
4. Nathaniel Depee, 334 South Street
5. Passmore Williamson, 7th and Arch Streets

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Illustrations of the Underground Railroad

"Twenty-eight Fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland"
Engraving by John Osler, published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting the incident described on pages 99-101 of the book.

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"Resurrection of Henry Box Brown"
Engraving by John Osler, published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting the famous incident described on pages 81-84.

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"Fight in the Bay"
Engraving published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872)
depicting an incident described on pages 528-530.

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"Desperate Conflict in a Barn"
Engraving published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting an incident described on pages 48-51.

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"Rescue of Jane Johnson and Her Children"
Engraving published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting an incident described on pages 86-97

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"A Bold Stroke for Freedom"
Engraving by C.H. Reed, published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting an incident described on pages 124-126.

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"The Mayor and Police of Norfolk searching Capt. Fountain's schooner"
Engraving published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting an incident described on pages 165-172

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"The Christiana Tragedy"
Engraving published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting the famous incident described on pages 348-357 of the book.

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"Escaping from Norfolk in Capt. Lee's Skiff"
Engraving by C.H. Reed, published in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) depicting an incident described on page 98.

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"Two Hundred Dollar Reward"
Advertisement in the Baltimore Sun in 1858 offering a reward for the recapture of Jacob Taylor. Reproduced in William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872) with Taylor's story on page 457

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See also the class exercise using such advertisements at "Escape to Freedom!"

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Portraits

Frederick Douglass	Thomas Garrett
Harriet Tubman	J. Miller McKim
Robert Purvis	William Still

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Title Pages

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.	My Bondage and My Freedom. New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.	The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave. As Narrated by Himself. London: Charles Gilpin, 1852.
The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898.	The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. New York: Burdick Brothers, 1857.	Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865). Boston: Ginn & Company, 1891.