The Underground Railroad: First-Person Narratives of Escapes To Freedon In the North.
Entry/Object ID
1994.21.3
Description
Hard cover, 308 pages.
This book is a compilation of slave narrartives regarding their escape to freedom in the Northern states. The author has grouped these narrartives by escape from slave states, and narratives of African-Americans who lived in free states but were subject to laws requiring escaped slaves to be returned to their masters regardless of the status of the state in which they resided.
A bookplate found Inside the Front Cover indicates this book was presented to The Germantown Historical Society by the Author in October/November, 1994.
Please see U-5, 2, v. 1 (2014.28.2104) for volume 1. Also see U-5, 1 (2014.28.2013) for the original German version of this book.