Book/Printed Material History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; including many thrilling encounters between those aiding the slaves to escape and those trying to recapture them,
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- Date: 1915
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Image 4 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; …- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 7 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; …- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 8 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … COL. WM. M. COCKRUM.- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 9 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … HISTORY of th€ Underground Railroad AvS IT WAS conducted BY THE ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE INCLUDING Many Thrilling Encounters Between Those Aiding the Slaves to Escape and Those Trying to Recapture Them BY COL.…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 10 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … E^S^-^ Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1915 By WILLIAM M. COCKRUM n the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SEP…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 11 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … This book is dedicated to the memory of Col. James W. Cockrum (the author s father), Dr. John W. Posey, Dr. Andrew Lewis, Ira Caswell, and George W. Hill, five brave, true-hearted…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 12 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … FOREWORD. In writing a history of the so-called Under- ground Railroad, the author is controlled by a desire to be just to the anti-slavery people who were aiding the slaves to gain…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 13 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … FOREWORD. V SO much of the early history of our country has gone. The author has no apology to make in the publication of this book. He thinks it right that the…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 14 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … vi FOREWORD. farther in their boastful, threatening way. This was kept up until they were given an object lesson that taught them that others could play the kid- napping game as well…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 15 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … FOREWORD. vii Dr. George C. Mason for valuable sugges- tions. L. O. Emerson for the data of the two Munday boys gaining their freedom. Rev. Eldridge Hopkins for data. C. C. Caswell…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 16 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … Map of the Underground Railroad in Indiana.- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 17 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ANTI- SLAVERY LEAGUE Chapter I In all the territory of the free states adjacent to the borders of the slave states during the time after the passage of…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 18 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 1850 the provisions of which were drafted by Senator Mason of Virginia who was among the foremost of the southern Tire-eaters in his hat- red of the north (and…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 19 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE harsh and humiliating provisions of that law seemed to have imbued the southern men with an extra touch of their imaginary superiority. This was carried so far that when…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 20 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD or in any way aiding fugitives in escaping. Unfortunately for justice the United States Courts of that period were organized so favorably to the interests of the owners of…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 21 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE that there might be some method of helping the slaves to escape instead of the hap-hazard way in which it was being done by the unorganized few who were…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 22 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD many as fifty educated and intelligent young and middle-aged men on duty from some ways above Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, along down the Ohio on both sides of it to the…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 23 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE thus helping those who were piloting the run- aways to place them beyond the chance of recap- ture. There was also a superintendent for each of the four states,…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 24 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD he said he was wilHng to risk it as we would be as deep in the mud as he was in the mire. During the time he was lying…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 25 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … JOHN HANSEN. Superintendent of the Anti-Slavery League.- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 26 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; …- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 27 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE above thirty-six. The routes these men were on were called by the names of timber, such as lin- den, oak, maple, hickory, walnut, dogwood, sassa- fras, beech and all…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 28 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD met friends who carried them on farther north, to a point near Lake Michigan either in Lake, Porter or LaPorte Counties. Here there was a place in each county…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 29 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE with the fish boat were in the employ of the anti- slavery league. No doubt there are old people of the city of Evansville who can yet remember two…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 30 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD more could come, when they would be piloted farther north. The fourth place for crossing the Ohio river was at a point midway between Owensboro, Ken- tucky, and Rockport,…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 31 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE anti-slavery people owned another lumber shack that they were put on board of; and when a suf- ficient number had been gotten together they were carried to a point…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 32 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD main reason why so many negroes eluded those who tried to capture them. The soldiers from many parts of Indiana were very much divided in their opinion on the…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915
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Image 33 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE ployees of the anti-slavery league was on the south side of the Ohio river, and in many cases far to the south. This work was very dangerous and none…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 34 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD with the white and colored people and with the roads, creeks and rivers in the territory they were working. After gaining thorough knowledge they would select an intelligent negro…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 35 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE then as far from the river as possible before the people were up and about. The negroes would be hidden in a dense thicket or in a barn of…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 36 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD presence of gold, silver, copper or lead. On^ of these men went to a neighborhood in Kentucky not far from Green river and was hunt- ing over the country,…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 37 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE the point they decided that without a doubt the description was of that place. The mineralogist asked permission to hunt for the lode and made an agreement that if…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 38 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD fine country residence, a man, probably fifty years old, was standing in his yard using the most vio- lent denunciations against the soldiers and all Yankees in general. The…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 39 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … CHAPTER II JERRY SULLIVAN S RAID AT THE OLD DON- GOLA BRIDGE In 1851 Mr. Andrew Adkins came across the Patoka river at Dongola to see my father. It was late in…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
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Image 40 of History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; … THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD hands. At that time we had a discharged soldier of the regular army named Jerry Sullivan work- ing for us. In the talk Sullivan asked why it would not…- Contributor: Cockrum, William Monroe
- Date: 1915