Selected Books Related to Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in New York

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AUTHOR :Curtis, Nancy C.
TITLE :Black heritage sites : an African American odyssey and
finder's guide / Nancy C. Curtis.
SUBJECT :Historic sites -- United States -- Directories
African Americans -- History
PUBLISHER/DATE :Chicago : American Library Association, 1996.

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1. ULIB REF / E 159 C65 1996

AUTHOR :Franklin, John Hope, 1915-
TITLE :Runaway slaves : rebels on the plantation / John Hope
Franklin, Loren Schweninger.
SUBJECT :Slave insurrections -- Southern States
Fugitive slaves -- Southern States -- History
Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.

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1. ULIB E 447 F7 1999

AUTHOR :Gara, Larry.
TITLE :The liberty line; the legend of the underground railroad.
SUBJECT :Underground railroad
Slavery -- United States -- Fugitive slaves
PUBLISHER/DATE :Lexington, University of Kentucky Press [1961]

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1. ULIB E 450 G22


AUTHOR :Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-
TITLE :Slavery and freedom in the rural North : African Americans in
Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865 / Graham Russell
Hodges.
SUBJECT :African Americans -- New Jersey -- Monmouth County -- History
Slavery -- New Jersey -- Monmouth County -- History
Free African Americans -- New Jersey -- Monmouth County --
History
Monmouth County (N.J.) -- History
PUBLISHER/DATE :Madison, Wis. : Madison House ; Monmouth, NJ : Friends of the
Monmouth County Park System, 1997.

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1. ULIB F 142 M7 H66 1997

AUTHOR :Horton, James Oliver.
TITLE :In hope of liberty : culture, community, and protest among
northern free Blacks, 1700-1860 / James Oliver Horton, Lois E.
Horton.
SUBJECT :African Americans -- History -- To 1863
Free African Americans -- History
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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1. ULIB E 185 H644 1997


AUTHOR :McManus, Edgar J.
TITLE :A history of Negro slavery in New York [by] Edgar J. McManus.
Foreword by Richard B. Morris.
SUBJECT :Slavery -- New York (State)
PUBLISHER/DATE :Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press [1966]

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1. ULIB E 445 N56 M3


AUTHOR :McManus, Edgar J.
TITLE :Black bondage in the North [by] Edgar J. McManus.
SUBJECT :Slavery -- New England
Slavery -- Middle Atlantic States
PUBLISHER/DATE :Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press, 1973.

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1. ULIB E 441 M16 In Library
TITLE :New York State Freedom Trail program study : report to the New
York State Freedom Trail Commission / prepared by the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
SUBJECT :Underground railroad -- New York (State)
Historic sites -- New York (State)
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
1999.

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1. GRENANDER SPE / Ref E 450 N49X 1999
(Check Hours for M.E. Grenander Special Collections)


TITLE :The Black abolitionist papers / C. Peter Ripley, editor ;
Jeffrey S. Rossbach, associate editor ... [et al.].
SUBJECT :Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements -- Sources
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century --
Sources
Abolitionists -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
African Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Sources
PUBLISHER/DATE :Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1985-

Location : UALB ULIB E 449 B624 1985
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1. ULIB E 449 B624 1985 V.1
2. ULIB E 449 B624 1985 V.2
3. ULIB E 449 B624 1985 V.3
4. ULIB E 449 B624 1985 V.4
5. ULIB E 449 B624 1985 V.5


AUTHOR :Sernett, Milton C., 1942-
TITLE :North star country : upstate New York and the crusade for
African American freedom / Milton C. Sernett.
SUBJECT :Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
Slavery and the church -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
African American abolitionists -- New York (State) -- History -
- 19th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) --
History -- 19th century
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865
New York (State) -- Race relations
PUBLISHER/DATE :Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2002.
AUTHOR :Sernett, Milton C., 1942-
TITLE :North star country : upstate New York and the crusade for
African American freedom / Milton C. Sernett.
SUBJECT :Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
Slavery and the church -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th

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1. ULIB E 445 N56 S47 2002

AUTHOR :Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961.
TITLE :The underground railroad from slavery to freedom.
SUBJECT :Underground railroad
Slavery -- United States -- Fugitive slaves
SERIES :American Negro, his history and literature;
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York, Arno Press, 1968 [c1898]

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1. ULIB E 450 S57 1968B

AUTHOR :Stauffer, John.
TITLE :The black hearts of men : radical abolitionists and the
transformation of race / John Stauffer.
SUBJECT :Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th
century

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1. ULIB E 449 S813 2002

AUTHOR :Strong, Douglas M., 1956-
TITLE :Perfectionist politics : abolitionism and the religious
tensions of American democracy / Douglas M. Strong.
SUBJECT :Liberty Party (N.Y.)
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th
century

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1. ULIB E 449 S917 1999


AUTHOR :Wellman, Judith.
TITLE :Grass roots reform in the burned-over district of upstate New
York : religion, abolitionism, and democracy / Judith Wellman.
SUBJECT :Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
Social movements -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
Social reformers -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) --
History -- 19th century
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865
Slavery and the church -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
Evangelists -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
New York (State) -- Church history -- 19th century
SUBJECT :Christian communities -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th
century
SERIES :Studies in African American history and culture;
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York ; London : Garland Pub., c2000.

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1. ULIB E 445 N56 W45 2000

AUTHOR :Brown, Catharine S., Mrs.
TITLE :Memoir of Rev. Abel Brown, by his companion, C. S. Brown.
SUBJECT :Brown, Abel, 1810-1844
PUBLISHER/DATE :Worcester, The author, 1849.

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1. ULIB E 449 B7 B76

AUTHOR :Williams-Myers, Albert James, 1939-
TITLE :Long hammering : essays on the forging of an African American
presence in the Hudson River Valley to the early twentieth
century / A.J. Williams-Myers.
SUBJECT :African Americans -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) --
History
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History
PUBLISHER/DATE :Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c1994.

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1. ULIB F 127 H8 W57 1994

AUTHOR :Grover, Kathryn, 1953-
TITLE :Make a way somehow : African-American life in a northern
community, 1790-1965 / Kathryn Grover.
SUBJECT :African Americans -- New York (State) -- Geneva -- History
Geneva (N.Y.) -- Race relations
PUBLISHER/DATE :Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1994.

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1. ULIB F 129 G3 G76 1994

AUTHOR :May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
TITLE :Some recollections of our antislavery conflict.
SUBJECT :Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements
SERIES :American Negro, his history and literature;
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York, Arno Press, 1968.

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1. ULIB E 449 M461 1968

AUTHOR :Ward, Samuel Ringgold, b. 1817.
TITLE :Autobiography of a fugitive Negro.
SUBJECT :Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements
SERIES :American Negro, his history and literature;
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York, Arno Press, 1968.

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1. ULIB E 449 W27 1968
2. ULIB E 449 W27 1968

AUTHOR :Merrill, Arch.
TITLE :The underground, freedom's road, and other upstate tales.
SUBJECT :Underground railroad
United States -- History -- Anecdotes
PUBLISHER/DATE :[New York, Manufactured by American Book-Stratford Press;
distributed by Seneca Book Binding Co., Rochester, N.Y., 1963]

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1. ULIB E 450 M47X

AUTHOR :Steward, Austin, b. 1794.
TITLE :Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing
a correspondence of several years, while president of
Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West, by Austin Steward.
SUBJECT :Wilberforce Negro Colony, Middlesex County, Ont
Slavery -- Virginia
Slavery -- New York (State)
PUBLISHER/DATE :Rochester, N.Y., Allings & Cory, 1861.

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1. ULIB E 444 S85

AUTHOR :Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884.
TITLE :Narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave. Boston, Anti-
slavery Office, 1847.
SUBJECT :Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
SERIES :Series in American studies;
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York, Johnson Reprint Corp. [1970]

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1. ULIB E 444 B88 1970


AUTHOR :Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
TITLE :Life and times of Frederick Douglass / written by himself.
SUBJECT :Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography
African Americans -- Biography
Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements
Slavery -- Maryland -- Condition of slaves
Plantation life -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century
Fugitive slaves -- Maryland
PUBLISHER/DATE :Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, c1983.

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1. ULIB E 449 D738 1983


AUTHOR :Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
TITLE :My bondage and my freedom.
SUBJECT :Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements
Slavery -- Maryland
SERIES :American Negro, his history and literature;
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York, Arno Press, 1968.

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ULIB E 449 D738 1968


AUTHOR :Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
TITLE :Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
/ written by himself.
SUBJECT :Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895
Slavery -- Maryland
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography
African Americans -- Biography
PUBLISHER/DATE :New York : Penguin Books, 1968.
1. ULIB E 449 D68X 1968

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