UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BIBLIOGRAPHY
General Information
Aptheker, Herbert. Abolitionism, A Revolutionary Movement. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1989.
Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower: A Brief History of Black America. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1982.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Blockson, Charles. Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1994.
Blockson, Charles. Underground Railroad, First Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North. New York: Prentice Hall, 1987.
Blockson, Charles. The Underground Railroad: Dramatic First Hand Accounts of Daring Escapes to Freedom. New York: Prentice Hall 1987.
Bracey, John H. Blacks in the Abolitionist Movement. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1971.
Bradford, Sarah. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People, 1869. Reprint Glouster, MA: Peter Smith, 1981.
Douglass, Frederick. Escape From Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Douglass, Frederick. The Mind and Heart of Frederick Douglass. New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1968.
Drew, Benjamin. A North-Side View of Slavery. 1856. Reprint, New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1968.
Ericson, David F. The Debate Over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism In Antebellum America. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Finkelman, Paul, Ed. Slavery and the Law. Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers, 1997.
Gara, Larry. Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925. New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, 1976.
Harold, Stanley. The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Hornsby, Alton, Jr. Chronology of African-American History. Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1991.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
National Park Service. Underground Railroad Resources in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, 1998.
National Park Service. Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Interior, 1998.
National Park Service. Underground Railroad Special Resource Study. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Interior, 1995.
National Park Service. Underground Railroad, Official Map and Guide. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Interior, 1996.
Parker, John. His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York: W. Norton & Co, 1996.
Still, William. The Underground Railroad: a Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872.
Tobin, Jacqueline & Dobard, Raymond G., Hidden In Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the UGRR. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
Indiana Resources
Baker, Ronald. Homeless, Friendless and Penniless: The WPA interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Brown, Maxine. The Role of Free Blacks in the Underground Railroad Activities of Central Indiana. Indianapolis: DNR-DHPA, 2001.
Cockrum, Col. William. History of the Underground Railroad, As it Was Conducted by the Anti-Slavery League. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1915.
Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin. 1876. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1968.
Coomer, Mark. Concerning Underground Railroad Activity in Southwestern Indiana.Indianapolis. Indianapolis: DNR-DHPA, 2001.
Coon, Diane P. Southeastern Indiana’s Underground Railroad Routes and Operations.Indianapolis: DNR-DHPA, 2001.
Cord, Xenia. Black Rural Settlements in Indiana Before 1860. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1993.
Crenshaw, Gwendolyn. Bury me in a Free Land: The Abolitionist Movement in Indiana: 1816-1865. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1993.
Finkelman, Paul. Ed. Slavery and the Law. Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers, 1997.
Freetown Village, Eds. Interpretive Stories Associated with the Underground Railroad in the Indianapolis Area. Indianapolis: DNR-DHPA, 2001.
Furlong, Patrick J. The South Bed Fugitive Slave Case. We the People: Indiana and the United States Constitution. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1987.
Goodall, Hurley C. Voices from the past: a collection of references to the African American community in the state of Indiana Product of the Works Progress Administration Writers Project in the 1930’s. Muncie, Indiana: H. Goodall, 2000.
Goodall, Hurley. Works Progress Administration Writers Project: Underground Railroad: The Invisible Road to Freedom Through Indiana. Indianapolis: DNR-DHPA, 2001.
Hamm, Thomas. The Anti-Slavery Movement in Henry County, Indiana: A Study of the Local Abolitionists. New Castle: Henry County Historical Society, 1975.
Lu, Marlene. Walkin’ The Wabash: An Exploration into the Underground Railroad in West Central Indiana. Indianapolis: DNR-DHPA, 2001.
Olshausen, George. American Slavery and After. San Francisco: Olema Press, 1983.
Peters, Pamela R. The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2001.
Quinn, Angela M. The Underground Railroad and the Antislavery Movement in Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. Indianapolis: DNR-DHPA, 2001.
Robbins, Coy. Indiana Negro Registers, 1852-1865. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1994.
Thornbrough, Emma Lou. Indiana in the Civil War Era 1850-1880. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1965 reprinted 1995.
Thornbrough, Emma Lou. The Negro in Indiana Before 1900. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1957.
Websites
- Aboard the Underground Railroad – National Park Service
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center – Cincinnati, Ohio
- Taking the Train to Freedom – National Park Service Website
- Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad