The Underground Railroad Site - Links and Citations

WWW Links and Works Cited

I have tried to collect here links to variety of resources. Good luck in your research!

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - WOW! This group has put together a tremendous amount of information. Very nicely done. Check out their links page if you want to keep surfing.
Also, a Senate Bill that benefits this Cincinnati online museum.
The North Star: Tracing the Underground Railroad - Includes a forum for people with research questions.
UGRR: Special Resource Study - This site presents the results of the National Park Service's 1990 study of the Underground Railroad. A must-see for researchers!
Aboard the UGRR - A travel itinerary of historic places for interested travelers. From the National Park Service.

Learn More about the UGRR - A guide from the NPS.
Yahoo! Underground Railroad Links
Conducting UGRR Research - A guide from the North Star Foundation.
Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives - Hosted by the University of Kansas.
Researching people of the Civil War Era - Notes for researchers provided by the U.S. Civil War Center.
Stories of the Underground Railroad -- Notes from the Shock Family.
An Anglo-American Traveller's Diaries -- A Yorkshire Quaker Merchant's Journey by Sail, Steam and Stage (home page for a book)

List of Sites - Well-organized database of important stations and destinations of the UGRR. State-by-state organization. From the National Park Service.
Levy Coffin House - Excellent page about the so-called "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad" in Indiana.

Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad for Children
Levi Coffin - President of the UGRR - from the Indiana Historical Society.
Delawarean: Thomas Garrett - from the State of Delaware
Memoir of Esther Whinery Wattles - the complete memoirs of this Quaker are available online from this family info site.
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - "In his Journal, Thoreau writes about a number of times he assisted fugitive slaves on their way north." A site maintained by the University of California, Santa Barbara library. (See the 5th question on the FAQ page.
Thoreau's essay on "Slavery in Massachusetts." Address delivered at the Anti-Slavery Celebration, at Framingham, July 4, 1854.

Books and Works Cited

Bial, Raymond. The Underground Railroad (1995).
Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave - Interesting site of this writer of children's books.
Stein,Conrad. The Story of Underground Railroad (1981). Chicago: Childrens Press.
Still, William. The Underground Rail Road. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1870. This classic book has recently been republished by Ayer Publishing Company.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Signet, 1966.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1855 (first publication) - 1892 (final publication).
Books and a link to Shields Library at UCD (this site's host.)

Malaspina Great Books Home Page - A truly wonderful resource that indexes out-of-copyright works from all disciplines.
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/template.htx
InterGO Free Library - Another collection of e-texts.
http://www.teachersoft.com/Library/library.htm
Project Gutenberg - Well-organized index and search engine of the many public domain text collections that are out there in FTP land.
http://promo.net/pg/