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  • Slaves would follow the drinking gourd, the north star, across the Ohio River to Ripley, Ohio where Presbyterian minister John Rankin, one of the conductors on the Underground Railroad, would give them shelter.
    UndergroundRR 0035RankinHom.jpg
  • Levi Coffin, a Quacker, assisted some 2000 runaway slaves to freedom in the North.  A hostess holds his portrait in from of his Indiana home, then a stop along the Underground Railroad.
    UndergroundRR 0032LeviCoffi.jpg
  • Card carrying member of the Seminole Indians Lance Cudjoe's relatives fled to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
    UndergroundRR 0033 Seminole.jpg
  • The Mason-Dixon line marker at the Maryland border near Cardiff was the line between the slave and free states.  The "P" Stood for Pennsylvania, a free state.
    UndergroundRR 0030MasonDixo.jpg
  • Seminole Negro Indian Scouts protected the Texas border from Comanche and Apache raiders.  The Buffalo Soldiers earned praise from the highest ranks.
    UndergroundRR 0028Buffaloso.jpg
  • Some black Seminole indians moved to Mexico in 1849-50 after learning that Indian Territory was not off limits to slave raiders.  Dan Factor, a black Seminole ranches near Nacimiento, Mexico.
    UndergroundRR 0029Seminoles.jpg
  • Copper slave tags identified a slave only by number when they were hired out in South Carolina.  Slaves without tags or identification papers were put in jail.
    UndergroundRR 0027SlaveTags.jpg
  • Sweet potatoe planting on Cassina Point Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina during Union occupation in April 8,1862.
    UndergroundRR 0026PlantingP.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship 3 ft and 3 in high.
    UndergroundRR 0021SlaveShip.jpg
  • With the help of a white friend, Samuel A. Smith, Henry Brown mailed himself to his family in Philadelphia and freedom.  He was dubbed Henry "Box" Brown.
    UndergroundRR 0017Box Brown.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0011 Hitching.jpg
  • Harriet Tubman portrait at her home in Auburn, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0002A Harriet.jpg
  • Civil War era mansion burned down before owners could move in.  Near Natchez, Mississippi I think.
    UndergroundRR 0041 Mansion.jpg
  • At the height of the Civil War Black's were urged to take up arms.  This poster was sponsored by black adolitionists in Philadelphia and eventually some 8000 were called into service.
    UndergroundRR 0040 CivilWar.jpg
  • Cudjo Lewis arrived by slave ship in Mobile, Alabama in 1859 from Dahomey, Africa.  After the Civil War he and his shipmates founded Plateau, Alabama where he lived into his 90s.
    UndergroundRR 0039CudjoLewi.jpg
  • Ten-room slave-built Greek Revival mansion sat on a 2,500-acre Louisiana sugarcane plantation.  The double stairway faces towards the Mississippi River which sometimes served as an escape route for slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0038Evergreen.jpg
  • "His soul is marching on" sang by Union soldiers which became the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." John Brown's grave lies near his farm in Lake Placid, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0037JBrownSta.jpg
  • "His soul is marching on" sang by Union soldiers which became the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." John Brown's grave lies near his farm in Lake Placid, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0036JBrownGra.jpg
  • The 20-year anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech that he gave in August of 1963 drew as many participants.  Demonstrators gathered as before by the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the march.
    UndergroundRR 0031 DCMarch.jpg
  • Slaves had to construct two-family cypress cabins at a proper distance from there masters mansion at Evergreen Plantation near New Orleans.
    UndergroundRR 0023 Shacks.jpg
  • In Atlanta, Georgia a slave auction house advertises its business.
    UndergroundRR 0022 Auction.jpg
  • Among the 2,000 slaves Levi Coffin assisted, William Bush, a  settler of Newport, reached Levi's house wearing wooden shoes.  William became a conductor for other runaway slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0018 W Bush.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship.
    UndergroundRR 0020SlaveShip.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship.
    UndergroundRR 0019SlaveShip.jpg
  • Thomas Garrett of Wilmington, Delaware worked openly for 40 yrs  to shelter fugitives.
    UndergroundRR 0016TomGarret.jpg
  • Slave catching increased  with the use of reward posters.
    UndergroundRR 0015 Reward.jpg
  • Slave inventory from Natchez, Mississippi in 1849.  First names were listed with values and age next to them.
    UndergroundRR 0014SlaveList.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0012 Hitching.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0013 Hitching.jpg
  • In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.  Guide is Kristin Henning.<br />
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In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0008 Milton.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0010 Hitching.jpg
  • In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0007 Milton.jpg
  • In 1810 Reverend Alexander Dobbin  created sliding shelves at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania home to hide several slaves in a crawl space.
    UndergroundRR 0005a Dobbin.jpg
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe drew on the story of a slave escaping with her baby on ice flows to cross the Ohio River to create the Eliza Harris character in "Uncle tom's Cabin."
    UndergroundRR 0034RiverCros.jpg
  • Decendants of abolisionist William Still at their 114th Family Reunion in Lawnside, New Jersey.  William Still helped Henry "Box" Brown to Freedom.
    UndergroundRR 0025StillReun.jpg
  • Slave Leg Blocks at Kingsley Plantation on Fort george Island in Florida now is a state historic site.  Family in leg irons is the Tillman family.
    UndergroundRR 0024 Restrain.jpg
  • In 1810 Reverend Alexander Dobbin  created sliding shelves at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania home to hide several slaves in a crawl space.
    UndergroundRR 0005 Dobbin.jpg
  • Harriet Tubman portrait at her home in Auburn, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0001 HarrietT.jpg
  • Harriet Tubman portrait at her home in Auburn, New York. Harriet bought this house for herself and her parents.  She served Union Troops as a spy, scout and nurse.
    UndergroundRR 0002 HarrietT.jpg
  • Conrail Freight Yards in Newark, New Jersey.
    scf4374-116.jpg
  • Conrail Freight Yards in Newark, New Jersey.
    scf4374-117.jpg
  • Conrail Freight Yards in Newark, New Jersey.
    scf4374-117_Conrail 0002.jpg
  • Conrail Freight Yards in Newark, New Jersey.
    scf4374-116_Conrail 0001.jpg
  • Coal trains in Hampton Roads Virginia 1991.
    scf4399-025_Coal Trains 0002.jpg
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