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History Day Guide 2003 --
Abolition - Underground Railroad
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Manuscripts Microfilms
Audiovisuals Published Materials
Manuscripts: Journals, letters, ledgers and diaries.
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MSS 33 | Charles Osborne Papers, 1808-1889
Journals and fragments from a diary kept by Osborne, an editor and abolitionist
from Mt. Pleasant, while traveling through United States, England and Europe
to preach at Quaker meetings
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MSS 47 | John Brown Jr. Papers, 1830-1932
Correspondence of John Brown, Jr. and members of the Brown Family, including his father, the famed abolitionist John Brown
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MSS 53 | Joshua Reed Giddings Papers, 1821-1866
Correspondence between Giddings, his family members and acquaintances in regard to political affairs, abolition, the Civil War, Giddings’ consulship in Canada, and family matters
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MSS 112 | Benjamin Lundy Papers, 1821-1904
Materials of Lundy, an abolitionist of St. Clairsville and Mt. Pleasant relating to the anti-slavery movement, his plan to establish a black colony in Mexico, land purchases, and family affairs
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MSS 116 | Wilbur Siebert Collection, c. 1740-1930
Materials collected between 1891 and 1948 on American loyalists, East Florida, and the Underground Railroad (See also SC 4080)
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MSS 240 | Nessly-DeSellem Families Papers, 1820-1866
Correspondence, religious notes, sermons, newspaper clippings, and other papers of DeSellem, a Methodist clergyman and abolitionist, of Columbiana and Jefferson counties and his wife, Lucy Nessly DeSellem
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MSS 539 | Sturges Family Papers , 1817-1945
Correspondence, land grants, Civil War letters, and legal papers
of the first merchants to settle in Mansfield, Ohio; topics include
abolitionism, land, shipping, and the Civil War
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Microfilms: Reproductions of orginal document
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FLM 59 |
O’Dell, Richard F. The Early Anti-Slavery Movement in Ohio.
Thesis. University of Michigan, 1948. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1948.
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FLM 108 |
Huff, Carolyn Barbara. The Politics of Idealism:
The Political Abolitionists of Ohio in Congress, 1840-1866.
Thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1969. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1970.
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Audiovisuals: Photographs, video and film footage,
and audio recordings.
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SC 92 | Ripley, Ohio
Photographs of views and people of Ripley, Ohio, a stop on the Underground Railroad, including graves and gravemarkers, homes, the riverboat Greenland, a former slave, and Main Street
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SC 489 | Ripley, Ohio, 1910
Photographs of Ripley, including the John Parker House, the Ripley Wesleyan African Church, the Thomas Collins House, "Aunt" Rhoda James, "Africa on the Hill," the hillside looking over Ripley
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| SC 651 | Ripley, Ohio, ca. 1910
Photographs of key buildings in the anti-slavery movement, including the Red Oak Presbyterian Church, the home of Dr. G. Norton, and the Thomas McCaque House
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| SC 652
| Leading Abolitionists from Ripley, Ohio, ca. 1910
Photographs of key figures of the Underground Railroad, including Lindsay Jackson, M.M. Murphy, Chambers Legget, and Aunt Polly Jackson; photographs of the dedication of a monument to the heroes of the Underground Railroad and a parade down Main Street
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| SC 1208 | Moses Vance Rawlings Home
Exterior views of the home of Moses Vance Rawlings at 318 Rawlings St. in Washington Court House, Fayette County, a stop on the Underground Railroad
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| SC 1338 | Underground Railroad
Photographs of Ohioans who served as conductors on the Underground Railroad, homes and buildings in Ohio that were stops on the Underground Railroad, and copies of a map of the Underground Railroad in Ohio by Professor Wilbur H. Siebert
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| SC 1495 | Works Progress Administration, ca. 1930s
Photographs of men and women living in Ohio who were former slaves
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| SC 1591 | John Rankin House, Ripley, Ohio
Photographs of the home of abolitionist John Rankin on a hill overlooking the Ohio River in Ripley, Ohio
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| SC 2416 | John Brown
Photographs of abolitionist John Brown
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| SC 3053 | Theodore Dwight Weld
Photograph of Weld, student leader of the slavery debate at Lane Seminary and staunch abolitionist
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| SC 3799 | Rankin, De Graf, and Doak Families
Portraits of family members, including abolitionist John Rankin
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| SC 4080 | Wilbur H. Siebert
Photographs of Professor Wilbur H. Siebert, who researched and documented the activities of abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in Ohio (See also MSS 116)
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SC 4334 | Harriet Beecher Stowe
Portraits of the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and images of her home in Cincinnati
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Published Materials: Books, periodicals, and pamphlets.
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B C654r | Coffin, Levi.
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin. Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, 1876.
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B F497h | Hardman, Keith J. Charles Grandison Finney, 1792-1875: Revivalist and Reformer. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987.
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B G287c | Clark, Kenneth Alton. Thomas Hedges Genin: Early Ohio Abolitionist. Thesis. Ohio State University, 1991.
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B M277m | Madden, Edward H. Freedom and Grace: The Life of Asa Mahan. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1982.
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B P2257 | Sprague, Stuart Seely, ed. His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., ca. 1996.
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B R167w | Ritchie, Andrew. The Soldier, the Battle and the Victory. Being a Brief Account of the Work of the Rev. John Rankin in the Anti-Slavery Cause. Cincinnati: Western Tract and Book Society, 1873.
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B T665m | McCormick, Robert W. Norton S. Townshend, M.D., Anti-Slavery Politician and Agricultural Educator. Worthington: Robert W. McCormick, ca. 1988.
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B W455t | Thomas, Benjamin P. Theodore Weld, Crusader for Freedom. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1950.
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207.771 L245s | A Statement of the Reasons Which Induced the Students of Lane Seminary, to Dissolve Their Connection With That Institution. Cincinnati, 1848.
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323.4 M241a | McPherson, James M. The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. Princeton: Princeton University Press, ca. 1975.
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326 B946 | Burroughs, Wilbur Greeley. Oberlin’s Part in the Slavery Conflict. Columbus: n.p., 1911.
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326.0973 Sm57c | Smith, Gerrit. Compensated Emancipation: A Speech in the National Compensation Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio 1857. Cleveland: n.p., 1857.
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326.219 L565L | Lesick, Lawrence Thomas. The Lane Rebels: Evangelicalism and Antislavery in Antebellum America. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press,1980.
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326.4 B391 | Beecher, Catharine Esther. An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females. Philadelphia: H. Perkins; Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1837.
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326.6 C462m | The Minutes of the Christian Anti-Slavery Convention Assembled April 17th-20th, 1850, Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati: B. Franklin Book and Job Rooms, 1850.
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326.6 Oh2p | Proceedings of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Convention. Held at Putnam, on the twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth of April, 1835. Putnam: Beaumont and Wallace, 1835.
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323.973 F16u | Fairchild, James H. The Underground Railroad. An Address Delivered for the Society in the Association Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, January 24, 1895. Cleveland: n.p., 1895.
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326.973 G16L | Gara, Larry. The Legend of the Underground Railroad. N.p.: n.p., 1961.
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326.973 H389 | Buckmaster, Henrietta. Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
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326.973 H971 | Speech of Hon. John Hutchins Delivered at Pioneer Reunion at Youngstown, Sept. 10, 1878, on the Underground Railroad. Youngstown: n.p., 1878.
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326.973 J632f | Johnson, H. U. From Dixie to Canada; Romance and Realities of the Underground Railroad. Orwell: H. U. Johnson, 1894.
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326.973 Sil5u2 | Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Macmillan Co., 1898.
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326.973 St54u | Still, William. The Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872.
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326.973 W125c | Wagner, Thomas E. Cincinnati and Southwestern Ohio: An Abolitionist Training Ground. Thesis. Miami University, 1967.
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973.08 M757o | Monroe, James. Oberlin Thursday Lectures, Addresses and Essays. Oberlin: E. J. Goodrich, 1897.
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973.7 M241s | McPherson, James M. The Struggle for Equality; Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.
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973.7114 Q27b | Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
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973.7115 T554h | Tobin, Jaqueline L. Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
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PA Box 246 6 | Allen, Rev. D. Howe. The Life and Services of Reverend Lyman Beecher, as President and Professor of Theology in Lane Seminary. Cincinnati: Johnson, Stephens & Co., 1863.
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PA Box 358 20 | McPherson, James M. Many Abolitionists Fought on After the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968-1969.
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PA Box 367 11 | Brown, William Wells. The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs. Philadelphia: Rhistoric Publications, 1869.
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PA Box 367 35 | Garrison, William Lloyd. The Abolitionists and their Relations to the War. N.p.: n.p., 1862.
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PA Box 512 25 | Garrison, William Lloyd. The Infidelity of Abolitionism. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
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PA Box 611 12 | Diamond, Augustus. Levi Coffin: The Friend of the Slave. London: Headley, 1915.
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PA Box 751 7 | McGraw, Marie Taylor and Kira R. Badamo. Underground Railroad Resources in the United States. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2000.
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