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Collection Reference Number GLC06145
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1890s 
Title From Dixie to Canada: romance and realities of the underground railroad
Date 1896
Author Johnson, Homer Uri (fl. 1896)  
Document Type Book
Content Description Second edition. Printed by H.U. Johnson. Includes a printed frontispiece photograph of Johnson. Johnson gathered the stories within this book from "personal observation, extensive reading, visitations along many of the old lines, and numerous interviews and extensive correspondence with those heroic men and women who dared their fortunes and their personal liberty in the cause of humanity and right..."
Subjects African American History  Slavery  Underground Railroad  Fugitive Slave Act  Runaway Slave  Abolition  
People Johnson, Homer Uri (fl. 1896)  
Place written Orwell, Ohio
Theme African Americans; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945