The Underground Railroad

A selected list of books and articles available in the J.C.C., Prendergast, and other libraries in Chautauqua County, New York.

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J.C.C.		 Barley, William S.  
The Underground Railroad in Southwestern New York.  (in Doty's The Historic Annals of Southwestern New York, pp.64-75.)
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Prendergast		 Breyfogle, William A.
Make Free; The Story of the Underground Railroad.  Lippincott, 1958.
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J.C.C.                		 Chapman, Abraham,  ed.
Steal Away; Stories of the Runaway Slaves.  Praeger, 1971.  Episodes from both well-known and little-known slave narratives, which present a picture of slavery as it was experienced by the slaves themselves.
J.C.C.    Cobblestone; the history magazine for young people.  September, 1981.
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Prendergast  		 Coffin, Levi.
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin.  Arno Press, 1968.  Reprint of 1898 ed.
Coffin, a Quaker and reputedly the president of the Underground Railway, relates his experiences in working as a conductor in Indiana and Ohio over a period of 35 years.
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Prendergast		 Danforth, Mildred E.
A Quaker Pioneer:  Laura Haviland, Superintendent of the Underground.  Exposition Press, 1961.  
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J.C.C.		 Gara, Larry.
The Liberty Line;  the Legend of the Underground Railroad.  U. of Kentucky Press, c1961.
Gara's thesis is that much of the history of the Underground Railroad is based on folklore, not fact.
  Escape From Slavery; the Underground Railroad by Charles L. Blackson.  National Geographic, July 1984, pp. 2-39.
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J.C.C.		 History of the First Baptist Church Jamestown, N.Y.  1827-1915.
Describes the violent debates about the slavery question that took place in the Jamestown Baptist Church in the early 1830's.
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Westfield   		 Miller, Phineas M.
Manuscript History of Town of Stockton, c1900., including local operations of the Underground Railroad.
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Fenton        		 Pettit, Eber M.
Sketches in the history of the Underground Railroad.  Russell and Russell.  1967 reprint of an 1898 edition.  
Pettit, a conductor of a station near Fredonia, relates stories of escapes that he had personal knowledge of.  Reprinted from the Fredonia Censor.
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J.C.C.  		 The Rev. J. W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman; a Narrative of Real Life.  Negro Universities Press, 1968, reprint of 1859 ed.  
Loguen, an underground agent and ordained minister in Syracuse helped 1500 escapes and started  Black schools in N. Y. State.  He was married to Caroline Storum of Busti.
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Prendergast		 Siebert, Wilbur H.
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom.  Russell, 1967.  Reprint of 1898 ed.
The most authoritative history of the U.G.R.  Contains an extensive bibliography.  Lists as
operators in Chautauqua Co.:  Andrew, Cranston, Frenk, Knowlton, Little, and Pettit.
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Section		 Smucker, Barbara.
Runaway to Freedom; a Story of the Underground Railway.
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Prendergast    		 Still, William.
The Underground Railroad.  Arno, 1968.  Reprint of 1872 ed.
This is a day-to-day record kept by Still--a famous black agent of the U.R. in Philadelphia.
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Prendergast 		 Stonehouse, Helena M.
One Hundred and Forty Years of Methodism in the Jamestown, N.Y. Area; 1954, p. 140.
Identifies the 3 underground railroad stations in Jamestown. 
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J.C.C.
  		 Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.  Bantam, 1851-52, 1981 reprint.

  

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Jamestown, New York

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