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Harriet Tubman, abolitionist

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Photograph of Harriet Tubman at approximately 78 years, seated in a chair wearing a head wrap, black shawl, and white scarf. Ernsberger, Auburn, NY, signed on front of image, lower left.

Map of part of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware from the best authorities

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Scale ca. 1:400,000. Map of part of eastern Virginia, eastern Maryland, and Delaware. Includes creeks and rivers, counties, villages, towns and major cities, (Richmond, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Wilmington), and major railroad lines. Forts Corcoran,…

New railroad map of the state of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, Compiled and Drawn by Frank Arnold Gray

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Scale 1:633,600. Map of Maryland, Delaware, and District of Columbia that shows drainage, canals, stations, cities and towns, counties, canals, roads completed, narrow gauge and proposed railroads with names of lines. Includes list of railroads.

The Underground Railroad

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Map of the Eastern part of the United States with free states, slave states, and territories. Arrows show major avenues of escape. Widths of arrows indicate relative numbers of runaway slaves.

Underground Railroad, Routes of the Fugitive Slave to Canada. Adapted from W. H. Siebert map. History of the State of New York, edited by A.C. Flick

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Map of New York with known and probable routes on the Underground Railroad. Includes major cities in New York and cities in Canada on Lake Ontario.

“Underground” Routes to Canada, Showing the Lines of Travel

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Scale ca. 1:12, 500,000. Map showing the lines of the Underground Railroad in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York. Includes an inset map of Lancaster and Chester Counties in Pennsylvania.

Twenty-eight fugitives escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland

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A wood engraving of fugitive slaves in Maryland from William Still's The Underground Railroad: a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., page 102.

Fugitive Slave Bill

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Text of Fugitive Slave Bill (Fugitive Slave Act), "as penned by the Senate and House of Representatives, Sept. 12, 1850, and approved Sept. 18, 1850 by President Fillmore." At end: "The Black List," list of representatives from free states who voted…

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2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahee, South Carolina, and escaped slave named Gordon

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Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being whipped upon his back, and in uniform…