| Folder Inventory-- The Archives has six folders concerning the Underground Railroad in McLean County. This shows the inventory of the folders. |
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Newspaper Articles (Pantagraph, unless noted) |
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"Anti-Slavery lecture," August 17, 1858. |
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1.2
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"Kidnapper In Town," March 24, 1862. |
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1.3
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"Slavery Times," September 3, 1895. |
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1.4
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"Escaping Negroes Hidden in Cave Near Lexington by Abolitionists," March 23, 1929. |
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1.5
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"Old Cellar Hid Slaves," February 21, 1948. |
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1.6
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"The Underground Railroad: A story of courage and Abolitionism in Central Illinois," December 30, 1990. |
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1.7
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"Railroad moved people north to freedom" ("Back Then" column), July 2, 2000. |
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1.8
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"Historian bringing Underground Railroad to Pontiac," November 29, 2000 (Note: Underground Railroad quilts have been thoroughly debunked--this article is an example of the mythmaking and well-intentioned false history on this movement). |
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1.9
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"Colony played anti-slavery role," February 24, 2002. |
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1.10
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"History's Tangled Threads," New York Times, February 2, 2007 (essay warning about mythologizing the Underground Railroad). |
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1.11
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"Underground Railroad myths obscure history of movement" ("Page from Our Past" column), July 25, 2009. |
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1.12
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"Slave Stampede," several articles from the State Register (Springfield) and Illinois State Journal (Springfield) regarding fugitive slaves heading from Springfield to Bloomington, from undated Lincoln Home National Historic Site newsletter (probably 2008). |
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Articles / Excerpts |
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1.13
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"Friends of Liberty on the Mackinaw," by Erastus Mahan in Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 396-403. (2 copies) |
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1.14
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"Illinois and the Underground Railroad to Canada," in Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 23 1917, pp. 76-98. |
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1.15
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The Underground Railroad in Illinois special issue, in Historic Illinois, vol. 22, April 2000. |
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1.16
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"Lincoln's Springfield: Then Underground Railroad" parts 1 and 2, by Richard E. Hart in For the People: A Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Spring 2006 and Summer 2006. |
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1.17
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"Lexington's 'Other' Railroad," excerpt from Lexington Illinois 150 Years (2007), pp. 12-13. |
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Miscellaneous |
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1.18
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Typed notes, author and date unknown, 1 p. |
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1.19
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Photograph of a "token," from a postcard. |
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1.20
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Photocopies of Jack Muirhead notes, mostly relating to Mahan and Lexington, 9 pgs. |
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1.21
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"The Anti-Slavery Movement," section in The History of Livingston County (1878; reprint 1982). Reference to a "colored barber from Bloomington." |
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1.22
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"Network to Freedom," handout, 1 sheet, National Park Service, ca. 2009. |
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1.23
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Email from Brent Wielt to Bill Kemp, July 31, 2009, concerning letter at the Macon Co. Conservation District |
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Anderson, John--Fugitive Slave Narrative |
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"Slave Testimony, Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies," edited by John W. Blassingame, excerpt "John Anderson," pg 353-358 (John Anderson traveled to Bloomington from Missouri) |
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"Release of Anderson, The Fugitive Slave," from the Illustrated London News, 2009 |
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Gray, V.--Underground Railway |
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1.1
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Memo from Glenn Dodds, undated |
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1.2
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Letter to the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce from Jay Jones, undated |
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1.3
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Letter to Mr. Jay Jone from Vern Gray (Curator), Feb. 24, 1967, explaining history of Underground Railroad through McLean County, also the Duncan Manor (2 copies) |
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Greene, Albert Robinson |
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"A Little McLean County History" by Albert Robinson Greene--A Native Son, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society v. 8, n. 3, October 1915, 459-465, (relates story of Underground Railroad in Mt. Hope, Illinois) |
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Mahan, W.R. Refuge for Fleeing Slaves |
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"Refuge for Fleeing Slaves," copied from the Cooksville Enterprise, Dec. 22, 1905, pg. 1, col. 5, (2 copies) (relates the story of W.R. Mahan and his Pleasant Hill, Illinois home) |
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McColm, John |
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"John McColm Last Survivor of Underground Railway, Dies," Pantagraph, May 9, 1913, p. 16 |