articles and features

• J. Miller McKim Visits a Washington Slave Prison, 1838

• Fugitive Slave Incidents in Central Pennsylvania

• Kidnapping and Murder:  How the Rachel Parker Case Galvanized Pennsylvania Popular Opinion Against the Fugitive Slave Law

• Christopher Densmore--connection between shape note singing and the UGRR

• Not the Alamo--7 Points About the Harpers Ferry Raid That You Should Know

• Afrolumens Project review of Bound For Canaan:  The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America, by Fergus Bordewich

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reference and databases

• Adams County Runaway Slave Removal List

• Yellow Hill Census, Compiled by Debra McCauslin--African Americans in Butler and Menallen Townships, Adams County:  webpage  |  MS Excel spreadsheet (62kb) 

• Notices for Runaway Slaves in Harrisburg, 1766-1820

• Notices for Freedom Seekers in Lancaster County

• Notices for Southern Freedom Seekers

• Underground Railroad Sites in Harrisburg

• Other Dauphin County URR Sites

• Chronology of  Underground Railroad Activity in Harrisburg

• George Chester appointed agent for The Liberator

• Harpers Ferry Warning to Harrisburg's Black Community

• Upper Allen Freed Slave Cemetery

• Christopher Densmore's Underground Railroad Newsletters

• Who's Who in Pennsylvania Underground Railroad History

tools

• Densmore's Index to R.C. Smedley's History of the Underground Railroad

• Souders' Alphabetical Index to S.M. Janney's Memoirs

• Souders' Sequential Index to S.M. Janney's Memoirs

• UGRR and Anti-Slavery Research Tools on the Web (primary sources)

research

• Adams County Underground Railroad Coalition

• Research into the 1851 kidnapping of Thomas Hall of Chester Co.

• Attempted capture of kidnapper McCreary, 1853

• Reflections on John Brown: Correspondence from Jean Libby 

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  • page 2 (material added July 19, 2006)
  • page 3 New book on John Brown, and events in Albany, New York, August 19 and 20, 2006
  • page 4 More new books on John Brown and his family
  • page 5 LInks between Yarrow Mamout, African textile heritage, and John Brown
  • Review of In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson, by Nat and Yanna Kroyt Brant, concerns the rescue of Jane Johnson and her two sons from enslavement in Philadelphia in 1855.
     

• Reflections on John Brown: Essay from Louis A. DeCaro:

  • Not the Alamo--7 Points About the Harpers Ferry Raid That You Should Know
  • Response by Jean Libby to Louis DeCaro's "Seven Points"
  • Louise DeCaro's defense of his essay, October 23
     

• Correspondence from Enid Mastrianni on Prestonia Mann Martin:  Making Connections with the Past

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• Correspondence with David Smith on Colonization, abolitionism and racism

• Mysterious Markings Discovered

 Are these markings,
 found in a Chester County
 farmhouse, from
 Underground Railroad
 freedom seekers?

news

• Tours Begin at Yellow Hill, Adams County

• Martin R. Delany Monument Dedicated

• Christiana UGRR Center Photos posted (see below)

• The Underground Railroad Center at Historic Zercher’s Hotel opens September 11
     "The 1851 Resistance at Christiana – a local flashpoint event that helped spark Civil War in America – will be commemorated in Lancaster County with a preview opening of a new visitor center from noon until 4 PM on Sunday, September 10, the eve of the event’s 155th anniversary.
     "Located at 11 Green Street in the Borough of Christiana in the former Zercher’s Hotel, the new center has been designed to give visitor’s an orientation to the significance of the Christiana Resistance, originally known as The Christiana Riot, which occurred near the Center on September 11, 1851."

• Smithsonian Magazine Article About the Stevens House Cistern
  This article by Fergus Bordewich includes information about the cistern recently discovered behind a house owned by Thaddeus Stevens in Lancaster that is believed to have sheltered Underground Railroad freedom seekers.  Download the article while it is still posted.

• Philadelphia Sculptor to Unveil Model of Proposed Still Statue (archived)

• Underground Railroad Quilts (research link)
  Let's put this myth to rest once and for all and get on with real research.  Click on the button for "Underground Railroad 'Quilt Code' Myth"  Thanks to Hart Cottage Quilts for a cogent and well-researched article in rebuttal to what has become nothing more than a pop-culture, money-making history scam.