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• Banks, J. H., 1833-
• Bayley, Solomon
• Black, Leonard
• Branch, Cyrus, 1793 or 1794-
• Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
• Brown, John, active 1854
• Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
• Bruner, Peter, 1845-1938
• Campbell, Israel, 1815?-1898
• Clarke, Lewis Garrard, 1812-1897
• Cooper, Thomas, -approximately 1821
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
• Fedric, Francis
• Franklin, Henry, 1803-
• Green, J. D. (Jacob D.), 1813-
• Green, William, 1814 or 1815-1895
• Grimes, William, 1784-1865
• Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
• Jackson, Mattie J.
• Johnson, Isaac, 1844-1905
• Jones, Thomas H.
• Loguen, Jermain Wesley
• Mars, James, 1790-
• Mason, Isaac, 1822-
• Parker, Allen, approximately 1835-
• Parker, Henry, 1835-
• Pennington, James W. C.
• Roper, Moses
• Singleton, William Henry, 1835-1938
• Smith, James L. (James Lindsay)
• Smith, Stephen, 1769 or 1770-1797
• Tilmon, Levin, 1807-1863
• Voorhis, Robert, 1769 or 1770-
• Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 1817-1866
• Watkins, James, 1821?-
• Watson, Henry, 1813?-
• Williams, Isaac D., 1821?-
• Williams, James, 1805-
• Williams, James, 1825-

• Fugitive slaves in the United States

• Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) (Publications of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, Fay House Monographs #3; c1891), by Marion Gleason McDougall, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart (Gutenberg text)
• No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts (Anti-Slavery Tracts new series #13; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.), by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Charles C. Burleigh (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, at January ,term, 1842, In Which It Was Decided That All the Laws of the Several States Relative to Fugitive Slaves Are Unconstitutional and Void, and That Congress Have the Exclusive Power of Legislation on the Subject of Fugitive Slaves Escaping Into Other States (Philadelphia: L. Johnson, 1842), ed. by Richard Peters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stories of the Underground Railroad (1941), by Anna L. Curtis, illust. by William Brooks (multiple formats at shockfamily.net)
• Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life, by Lydia Maria Child
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• John and Mary, or, The Fugitive Slaves: A Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing and Pub. Co., 1873), by Ellwood Griest (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Massachusetts in Mourning, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• The New Crime Against Humanity, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
• Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail, by Daniel Drayton
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text
• A Short History and Description of the Ojibbeway Indians Now on a Visit to England: With Correct Likenesses, Engraved From Daguerreotype Plates, Taken By M. Claudet (1844), by Charles Stuart, illust. by M. Claudet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad: Comprising Many Thrilling Incidents of the Escape of Fugitives From Slavery, and the Perils of Those Who Aided Them (Fredonia, NY: W. McKinstry and Son, 1879), by Eber M. Pettit, contrib. by Willard McKinstry
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Vermont's Anti-Slavery and Underground Railroad Record (Columbus, OH: Spahr and Glenn Co., 1937), by Wilbur Henry Siebert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to Hon. Reverdy Johnson, on the Proceedings at the Meeting, Held at Maryland Institute, January 10th, 1861 (Baltimore: Murphy and Co., printers, 1861), by John C. Le Grand
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man): Giving an Account of His Birth; The Period He Was Held in Slavery; His Release, and Removal to Canada, etc; Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad (Toronto: Smallwood; James Stephens, 1851), by Thomas Smallwood (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
• Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of a Dissolution of the Union, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)

• The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad. (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1855), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Biography of an American Bondman (Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1856), ed. by Josephine Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
• The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery, Written by Himself (New Bedford, MA: Press of B. Lindsey, 1847), by Leonard Black (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, by James Williams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America (London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, et al., 1825), by Solomon Bayley, ed. by Robert Hurnard
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America (second edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Solomon Bayley, ed. by Robert Hurnard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by Themselves; With an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; et al.,, 1856), by Benjamin Drew
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England (London: John Snow, 35 Paternoster Row, 1855), by Samuel Ringgold Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time (New Haven: The author, 1855), by William Grimes (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave: Written by Himself (New York: The author, 1825), by William Grimes
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1847), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, by William Craft and Ellen Craft
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Lehigh
  • Gutenberg text
• Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, From My Green Brier House: Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom (Philadelphia: The Author, 1861), by Israel Campbell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Fugitive Blacksmith: or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States (second edition; London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by James W. C. Pennington
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • reprint transcription: Gutenberg text
• Hair-Breadth Escapes from Slavery to Freedom (Manchester: W. Bremner, 1861), by William Troy (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco, CA: Women's Union Print, 1873), by James Williams
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of James Watkins, Formerly a "Chattel" in Maryland, U. S.: Containing an Account of His Escape from Slavery, Together with an Appeal on Behalf of Three Millions of Such "Pieces of Property," Still Held Under the Standard of the Eagle (Bolton, UK: Kenyon and Abbatt, 1852), by James Watkins (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman (Syracuse, NY: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1859), by Jermain Wesley Loguen
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• Struggles for Freedom: or, The Life of James Watkins, Formerly a Slave in Maryland, U. S.; in Which is Detailed a Graphic Account of His Extraordinary Escape from Slavery, Notices of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Sentiments of American Divines on the Subject of Slavery, etc., etc. (19th edition; Manchester, UK: Printed for J. Watkins by A. Heywood, 1860), by James Watkins (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Companions, or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction: A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves (London: Edwards and Co., 1852), by John Passmore Edwards, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Escape, or, A Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts (Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1858), by William Wells Brown (page images at Harvard)

• The Martyrs and the Fugitive: or, A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son, by S. H. Platt (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Jamie Parker, the Fugitive (Hartford: Brockett, Fuller and Co., 1851), by Emily C. Pearson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Kentucky Jurisprudence: A History of the Trial of Miss Delia A. Webster, at Lexington, Kentucky, Dec'r 17-21, 1844, Before the Hon. Richard Buckner, on a Charge of Aiding Slaves to Escape From That Commonwealth; With Miscellaneous Remarks, Including Her Views on American Slavery (Vergennes, VT: E. W. Blaisdell, 1845), by Delia Ann Webster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford: Park Pub. Co., 1881), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Boston: De Wolfe and Fiske Co., c1892), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• John and Mary, or, The Fugitive Slaves: A Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing and Pub. Co., 1873), by Ellwood Griest (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave (attributed to Matthews by Susanna Ashton; serialized in The Emancipator, 1838), ed. by Joshua Leavitt, contrib. by James Matthews (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of Facts in the Case of Passmore Williamson (page images at MOA)
• Speech of Mr. Walker, of Montgomery, Delivered in the Ohio Senate, January 23 and 25, on the Resolutions on the Subject of Slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law (Columbus, OH: Scott and Bascom, 1851), by Moses B. Walker (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (Boston: Fetridge and Co., 1854) (page images at MOA)
• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Case of Passmore Williamson: Report of the Proceedings on the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Issued by the Hon. John K. Kane, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in the Case of the United States of America Ex Rel. John H. Wheeler vs. Passmore Williamson, Including the Several Opinions Delivered; and the Arguments of Counsel, Reported by Arthur Cannon, Esq., Phonographer (Philadelphia: U. Hunt and Son, 1856), ed. by Arthur Cannon, contrib. by United States District Court, Pennsylvania Eastern District and John H. Wheeler
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and full text at Library of Congress
• Trial of Henry W. Allen, U.S. Deputy Marshall, for Kidnapping, With Arguments of Counsel and Charge of Justice Marvin, on the Constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law, in the Supreme Court of New York (1852) (multiple formats at archive.org)

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