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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Addison White, Udney Hyde and the Three Amandas -- 2. Ohio and the Nation, 1785-1815 -- 3. Blacks, Quakers and Indians in the Earliest Years of the Underground Railroad -- 4. Ohio and the Nation, 1815-1860 -- 5. Getting to Ohio -- 6. How the Underground Railroad Worked…and Didn't Work -- 7. John Parker of Rip-Roaring Ripley -- 8. Legacy of Ohio's Underground Railroad -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Author.

Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by Virginia's waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped slaves made eighteenth-century Norfolk a haven for freedom seekers. Famous nineteenth-century escapees like Shadrach Minkins and Henry "Box" Brown were aided by the Underground Railroad. Enslaved men like Henry Lewey, known as Bluebeard, aided freedom seekers as conductors, and black and white sympathizers acted as station masters. Historian Cassandra Newby-Alexander narrates the ways that enslaved people used Virginia's waterways to achieve humanity's dream of freedom.--Back cover

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- The Steel Family: 1805 -- Fred Bailey: Circa 1825 -- Araminta "Minty" Ross: 1844 -- 1. Surveying the Route -- 1619: Two Beginnings -- Contradictions on Rehoboth Bay -- A Negro Man Called Black Will -- 2. Laying the First Tracks -- Fifty-Dollar Reward -- For Their Good Service -- Steel Flees Again -- Thomas Garrett and the Devil on the Nanticoke -- Monument to a Mistake -- 3. Delaware's Underground Railroad Starts Rolling -- Birth of Delaware's Underground Railroad -- Thomas Garrett, Stationmaster -- William Still: For Liberty and Improvement -- Escape of Frederick Douglass -- Escape of the Hawkins Family -- The Trial of Samuel Burris, John Hunn and Thomas Garrett -- 4. Harriet Tubman in Delaware -- The Great Escape on the Pearl -- Harriet Tubman's Quest for Freedom -- Thomas Garrett's Prophecy -- Harriet Tubman Rescues Kizzy -- Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Some System about This Business -- 5. Violence on the Track -- The Fugitive Slave Law -- Harriet Tubman Returns for Her Brothers -- Harriet Tubman: In Broad Daylight -- The Dover Eight -- Escape by Sea -- Captains Audacious -- 6. Taking Up the Tracks -- War -- End of the Line -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Slavery and Abolition -- Chapter 1: Life as a Slave -- Chapter 2: Going Underground -- Chapter 3: Fugitive Slave Laws and Escape to Canada -- Chapter 4: Freedom at Last -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to New Hampshire's Hidden History -- Part I. New Hampshire's Slavery -- 1. Slave Trade -- 2. Slaves in New Hampshire -- 3. Dartmouth College and Slaves -- 4. Portsmouth Slave Population -- 5. The 1779 Slaves' Petition -- Part II. Being Black in New Hampshire: Contrasting Experiences -- 6. Amos Fortune-Jaffrey -- 7. Richard Potter-Andover -- 8. Harriet Wilson-Milford -- 9. George Blanchard-Milford -- 10. The Tragedy of Noyes Academy -- Part III. Abolitionist Movement in New Hampshire -- 11. Overview of the Movement in New Hampshire -- 12. The Abolitionist Apostles -- 13. Jail Time for Abolitionists -- Part IV. Underground Railroad Efforts -- 14. Agents and Their Contributions -- 15. Other New Hampshire Safe Houses -- 16. Ona Judge Staines: President George Washington's Pursuit and Ona's Success -- 17. Stories of Fugitive Slaves in New Hampshire -- 18. History Revealed -- Part V. Twenty-first-Century Commemorations -- Appendix 1. Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail -- Appendix 2. The Harriet Wilson Project's Black Heritage Trail -- Appendix 3. Portsmouth African Burying Ground -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

The saga of James W.C. Pennington -- The setting -- The underground railroad -- Delaware : routes of the underground railroad -- The Wilmington network -- Maryland : the eastern route -- Maryland : the central and western routes -- The underground railroad in West Virginia -- The links with New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio