LI B RAR.Y OF THE UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS 973.7115 St5u cop. 3 ILLINOIS HISTORICAL SliMY max I H | j THE IM)ERGROIM> RAIL ROAD A RECORD OP FACTS, AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES, LETTERS, &c., Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Straggles OF THE Slaves in their efforts for Freedom, AS RELATED BY THEMSELVES AND OTHERS, OR WITNESSED BY THE AUTHOR; TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE LARGEST STOCKHOLDERS, AND MOST LIBERAL AIDERS AND ADVISERS, OF THE ROAD. BY WILLIAM STILL, For many years connected with the Anti-Slavery Office in Philadelphia, and Chairman of the Acting Vigilant Committee of the Philadelphia Branch of the Underground Rail Road. Illustrated with 70 fine Engravings by Bensell, Schell and otters, and Portraits from Photographs from Life. Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant that has escaped from his master unto thee.Deut. xxiii. 15. SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. PHILADELPHIA: PORTER & COA.TE8, 822, CHESTNUT STREET. 1872. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1871, by WM. STILL, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. JAS. B. RODGERS CO. Electrotype t Printers, 52 ft 54 North 6th Street, Philad'i 993, TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM, TO HEROIC FUGITIVES AND THEIR POSTERITY IN THE UNITED STATES, THESE MEMORIALS OF THEIR LOVE OF LIBERTY ARE INSCRIBED By the AUTHOR. PREFACE. Whereas, The position of William Still in the vigilance committee connected with the " Underground Rail Road," as its corresponding secretary, and chairman of its active sub-committee, gave him peculiar facilities for collecting interesting facts pertaining to this branch of the anti-slavery service ; therefore Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society request him to compile and publish his personal reminiscences and experiences relating to the "Underground Rail Road." In compliance with this Resolution, unanimously passed at the closing meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society held last May in Philadelphia, the writer, in the following pages, wil- lingly and he hopes satisfactorily discharges his duty. In these Records will be found interesting narratives of the escapes 'of many men, women and children, from the prison- house of bondage; from cities and plantations; from rice swamps and cotton fields; from kitchens and mechanic shops; from Border States and Gulf States; from cruel masters and mild mas- ters ; some guided by the north star alone, penniless, braving the perils of land and sea, eluding the keen scent of the bloodrhound as well as the more dangerous pursuit of the savage slave-hunter; some from secluded dens and caves of the earth, where for months and years they had been hidden away waiting for the chance to escape ; from mountains and swamps, where indescribable suffer- ing from hunger and other privations had patiently been endured. Occasionally fugitives came in boxes and chests, and not infre- quently some were secreted in steamers and vessels, and in some instances journeyed hundreds of miles in skiffs. Men; disguised in female attire and women dressed in the garb- of men have under very trying circumstances triumphed in thus making their way to freedom. And here and there when all other modes of escape seemed cut off, some, whose fair complexions have rendered them indistinguishable from their Anglo-Saxon brethren, feeling that they could endure the yoke no longer, with assumed airs of im- THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. portance, such as they had been accustomed to see their masters show when traveling, have taken the usual modes of conveyance and have even braved the most scrutinizing inspection of slave- holders, slave-catchers and car conductors, who were ever on the alert to catch those who were considered base and white enough to practice such deception. Passes have been written and used by fugitives, with their masters' and mistresses' names boldly attached thereto, and have answered admirably as a protection, when passing through ignorant country districts of slave regions, where but few, either white or colored, knew how to read or write correctly. Not a few, upon arriving, of course, hardly had rags enough on them to cover their nakedness, even in the coldest weather. It scarcely needs be stated that, as a general rule, the passengers of the U. G. R. R. were physically and intellectually above the average order of slaves. They were determined to have liberty even at the cost of life. The slave auction block indirectly proved to be in some respects a very active agent in promoting travel on the U. G. R. R., just as Jeff. Davis was an agent in helping to bring about the downfall of Slavery. The horrors of the block, as looked upon through the light of the daily heart-breaking separations it was causing to the oppressed, no pen could describe or mind imagine ; hence it will be seen that many of the passengers, whose narratives will be found in this work, ascribed their first undying resolution to strike for freedom to the auction block or to the fear of soon having to take their chances thereon. But other agencies were at work in the South, which in various ways aided directly or tacitly the U. G. R. R. cause. To refer in detail to any considerable number of these agents would be impossible, if necessary. Some there were who nobly periled their all for the freedom of the oppressed, whose sufferings and deeds of bravery must have a fitting place in this volume. Where in history, modern or ancient, could be found a more Christlike exhibition of love and humanity, of whole-souled devo- tion to freedom, than was proven in the character of the hero, Seth Concklin, who lost his life while endeavoring to rescue from Alabama slavery the wife and children of Peter Still ? PREFACE. 3 So also do the heroic and faithful services of Samuel D. Burris demand special reference and commemoration, for his connection with the U. G. R. R. cost him not only imprisonment and the most barbarous treatment, but likewise the loss of his freedom. He was sold on the auction block. Here too come the overwhelming claims of S. A. Smith, who at the sad cost to himself of many of the best years of his life in the Richmond penitentiary, boxed up Henry Box Brown and others in Richmond, and committed them to Adams' Express office, to be carried in this most extraordinary manner to freedom. We must not omit from these records the boldness and the hazard of the unparalleled undertakings of Captains Dray ton, Lee, Baylis, &c. While the Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia was in no wise responsible for the suffering incurred by many of those who helped the slave, yet in order to show how men were moved to lend an ear to those hungering and thirsting for freedom, and to what extent the relentless spirit of Slavery would go in wreak- ing vengeance upon them out of the many who were called upon to suffer thus, the individual cases here brought forward must suffice. Without introducing a few of such incidents the records would necessarily be incomplete. Those who come after us seeking for information in regard to the existence, atrocity, struggles and destruction of Slavery, will have no trouble in finding this hydra-headed monster ruling and tyrannizing over Church and State, North and South, white and black, without let or hindrance, for at least several generations. Nor will posterity have any difficulty i^i finding the deeds of the brave and invincible opposers of Slavery, who in the language of Win. Lloyd Garrison, declared without concealment and without compromise : " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard." While this resolute spirit actuated the hearts of all true aboli- tionists, it was a peculiar satisfaction and gratification to them to know that the slaves themselves were struggling and hungering for deliverance. Hence such evidence from this quarter never failed to meet with hearty sympathy and aid. But here the enemy was never willingly allowed to investigate. 4 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. The slave and his particular friends could only meet in private to transact the business of the Underground Rail Road ground. All others were outsiders. The right hand was not to know what the left hand was doing. Stockholders did not expect any dividends, nor did they re- quire special reports to be published. Indeed prudence often dictated that even the recipients of our favor should not know the names of their helpers, and vice versa they did not desire to know theirs. The risk of aiding fugitives was never lost sight of, and the safety of all concerned called for still tongues. Hence sad and thrilling stories were listened to, and made deep impressions ; but as a uni- versal rule, friend and fugitive parted with only very vivid recollec- tion of the secret interview and with mutual sympathy; for a length of time no narratives were written. The writer, in common with others, took no notes. But after the restoration of Peter Still, his own brother (the kidnapped and the ransomed), after forty years' cruel separation from his mother, the wonderful discovery and joyful reunion, the idea forced itself upon his mind that all over this wide and extended country thousands of mothers and children, separated by Slavery, were in a similar way living without the slightest knowledge of each other's where- abouts, praying and weeping without ceasing, as did this mother and son. Under these reflections it seemed reasonable to hope that by carefully gathering the narratives of Underground Rail Road passengers, in some way or other some of the bleeding and severed hearts might be united and comforted ; and by the use that might be made privately, if not publicly, of just such facts as would naturally be embraced in their brief narratives, re-unions might take place. For years it was the writer's privilege to see many travelers, to receive from their own lips the most interesting and in many cases exceedingly thrilling accounts of their struggles for liberty, and to learn who had held them in bondage, how they had been treated, what prompted them to escape, and whom that were near, and dear to them they had left in chains. Their hopes, fears and sufferings were thus recorded in a book. It scarcely need be added with no expectation, however, that the day was so near when these things could be published. It is now a source of great satisfaction to feel that not PREFACE. 5 only these numerous narratives may be published, but that in connection therewith, for the completeness of the work, many in- teresting private letters from fugitives in Canada, slaves in the South, Underground Rail Road conductors arid stockholders, and last and least, from slaveholders, in the bargain all having a direct bearing on the mysterious road. In the use of these various documents, the writer begs to assure his readers that the most scrupulous* care has been taken to furnish artless stories, simple facts, to resort to no coloring to make the book seem romantic, as he is fully persuaded that any exaggerations or Additions of his own could not possibly equal in surpassing interest, the original and natural tales given under circumstances, when life and death seemed about equally balanced in the scale, and fugitives in transit were making their way from Slavery to Freedom, with the horrors of the Fugitive Slave-law staring them in the face. Thousands were either directly or indirectly interested in this en- terprise, and in all probability two generations will pass away before many who are now living witnesses to the truth of these records will cease to bring vividly to mind the hour and circumstance when for the first time they were led to resort to this road to escape the " barbarism" of Slavery. Far be it from the writer to assume, however, that these Records cover the entire Underground Rail Road operations. Many local branches existed in different parts of the country, which neither time nor limit would allow mention of in this connection. Good men labored and suffered, who deserve to be held in the highest admiration by the friends of Freedom, whose names may be looked for in vain in these pages ; for which reason some may be inclined to complain. With respect to these points it may here be remarked that in gathering narratives from unwritten sources from memory simply no amount of pains or labor could possibly succeed in making a trustworthy his- tory. The writer has deemed it best, therefore, to confine himself to facts coming within his personal knowledge, and to the records of his own preserving, which, by the way, are quite too voluminous to be all used in this work. Frequent abridgements and omissions must be made. The writer is fully conscious of his literary imperfections. The 6 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD. time allotted him from other pressing duties is, moreover, exceed- ingly limited. Nevertheless he feels that he owes it to the cause of Freedom, and to the Fugitives and their posterity in par- ticular, to bring the doings of the U. G. R. R. before the public in the most truthful manner; not for the purpose of amusing the reader, but to show what efforts were made and what suc- cess was gained for Freedom under difficulties. That some professing a love of liberty at this late date will be disposed to criticise some of the methods resorted to in aiding in the escape of fugitives as herein recounted, may be expected. While .the writer holds the labors of Abolitionists generally in very grateful appreciation, he hopes not to be regarded as making any invidious discriminations in favor of the individual friends of the slave, whose names may be brought out prominently in this work, as it ( is not with the Anti-Slavery question proper that he is dealing, but simply the Underground Rail Road. In order, therefore, fittingly to bring the movements of this enterprise to light, the writer could not justly confine himself to the Acting Committee, but felt constrained to bring in others Friends who never forsook the fugitive, who visited him in prison, clothed him when naked, fed him when hungry, wept with him when he wept, and cheered him with their warmest sym- pathies and friendship. In addition to the names of the Act- ing Committee, he has felt constrained to beg the portraits of the following stockholders and advisers of the Road, whose names will be found on the next page, and in thus presenting a brief sketch of their labors, he feels that the true friends of the slave in recognizing them in this connection with many of the once Fugi- tives (now citizens), will regard it as a tribute to the Anti-Slavery cause rather than the individuals themselves. WILLIAM STILL. PHILADELPHIA, January, 1872. ILLUSTRATIONS. THE AUTHOR FRONTISPIECE. PAGE PETER STILL " TH1, KIDNAPPED AND THE RANSOMED" 37 CHARITY STILL TWICE ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY 37 DESPERATE CONFLICT IN A BARN 50 DEATH OF ROMULUS HALL 53 RESURRECTION OF HENRY BOX BROWN 83 RESCUE OF JANE JOHNSON AND HER CHILDREN 88 PASSMORE WILLIAMSON 95 JANE JOHNSON 95 ESCAPING FROM PORTSMOUTH, VA : 98 TWENTY-EIGHT FUGITIVES ESCAPING FROM EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND 102 ESCAPING FROM ALABAMA ON TOP OF A CAR 107 CROSSING THE RIVER ON HORSEBACK IN THE NIGHT 121 A BOLD STROKE FOR FREEDOM CONTEST WITH FIRE-ARMS 125 ABRAM GALLOWAY 150 THE MAYOR AND POLICE OF NORFOLK SEARCHING CAPTAIN FOUNTAIN'S SCHOONER 167 MARIA WEEMS ESCAPING AS JO WRIGHT 183 JOHN HENRY HILL 191 DRY-GOODS MERCHANT SEARCHING THE CARS 215 ESCAPE WITH A LADY, AS HER COACHMAN, WITH MASTER'S HORSE AND CARRIAGE 216 SIX ON TWO HORSES 220 UP A TREE 237 SAMUEL GREEN SENTENCED TO THE PENITENTIARY FOR TEN YEARS FOR HAVING A COPY OF " UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" IN HIS HOUSE 250 LEAR GREEN ESCAPING IN A CHEST 283 ESCAPE OF ELEVEN PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND IN TWO CARRIAGES... 302 THE CHRISTIANA TRAGEDY 351 WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT 368 7 8 ILLUSTRATIONS. PACK MEMBERS OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE: N. W. DEPEE '. 400 JACOB C. WHITE 400 CHARLES WISE 400 EDWIN H. COATES 400 KNIFING HIS VICTIM 423 LIVING IN A HOLLOW TREE ; 424 " IN A CAVE 425 A NARROW ESCAPE 453 SUSPENDED BY THE HANDS WITH BLOCK AND TACKLE 470 CROSSING THE BAY 482 BREAKING HIM IN 495 MOTHER ESCAPING WITH SEVEN CHILDREN , 512 FIGHT IN CHESAPEAKE BAY . 528 JOHN W. DUNGEE 542 MARY MILBURN (SECRETED IN A BOX) 558 HEAVY WEIGHTS ARRIVAL OF A PARTY AT LEAGUE ISLAND 560 SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS OF STATION-MASTERS, PROMINENT ANTI-SLAVERY MEN, AND SUPPORTERS OF THE U. G. R. R. : ABIGAIL GOODWIN 622 THOMAS GARRETT v 622 DANIEL GIBBONS 622 LUCRETIA MOTT 622 J. MILLER M'KIM % 654 WILLIAM H. FURNESS 65 WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 654 LEWIS TAPPAN 654 ELIJAH F. PENNYPACKER 688 WILLIAM WRIGHT 688 DR. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL '. 688 ROBERT PURVIS 688 JOHN HUNN 720 SAMUEL RHOADS 720 WILLIAM WHIPPER 720 SAMUEL D. BURRI8 720 CHARLES D. CLEVELAND 724 GRACE ANNA LEWIS 748 MRS. FRANCES E. W. HARPER 748 JOHN NEEDLES.. , 748 CONTENTS. PACE SETHCONKLIN 23 UNDERGROUND RAILROAD LETTERS. From Thomas Garrett G. A. Lewis E. L. Stevens Sydney Howard Gay John Henry Hill J. Bigelowe Ham and Eggs Rev. H. Wilson Sheridan Ford E. F. Pennypacker J. C. Bustill Slave secreted in Richmond G. S. Nelson John Thompson Wm. Penn 39 WILLIAM BOX PEEL JONES Came boxed \ipvia Erricson line of Steamers 46 WESLEY HARRIS ALIAS ROBERT JACKSON, CRAVEN MATTERSON AND TWO BROTHERS 48 CLARISSA DAVIS Arrived in Male Attire 60 ANTHONY BLOW ALIAS HENRY LEVISON Secreted Ten Months Eight days on the Steamship City of Richmond bound for Philadelphia 61 PERRY JOHNSON, OF ELKTON, MARYLAND. Eye knocked Out v 64 ISAAC FORMAN, WILLIAM DAVIS AND WILLIS REDICK. Hearts full of joy for Freedom Very anxious for Wives in Slavery 64 JOSEPH HENRY CAMP Sold, the day he escaped, for Fourteen Hundred Dollars Slave Trader loses his Bargain t 66 SHERIDAN FORD Secreted in the Woods Escapes in a Steamer 67 JOSEPH KNEELAND ALIAS JOSEPH HULSON Young Master had a "Malignant Spirit" 68 9 10 CONTENTS. PAGE EX-PRESIDENT TYLER'S HOUSEHOLD LOSES AN ARISTOCRATIC ARTICLE '. 69 EDWARD MORGAN, HENRY JOHNSON, JAMES AND STEPHEN BUTLER.. " Two Thousand Dollars Reward" offered 70 HENRY PREDO Daniel Hughes, Thomas Elliott, and five others betrayed into Dover Jail 72 MARY EPPS ALIAS EMMA BROWN, JOSEPH AND ROBERT ROBINSON. A Slave Mother Loses her Speech at the Sale of her Child. ..Bob Escapes from his Master, a Trader, with Fifteen Hundred Dollars in North Carolina Money 74 GEORGE SOLOMON, DANIEL NEALL, BENJAMIN R. FLETCHER AND MARIA DORSEY * 79 HENRY BOX BROWN Arrived by Adams Express 81 TRIAL OF THE EMANCIPATORS OF COL. J. H. WHEELER'S SLAVES, JANE JOHNSON AND HER TWO LITTLE BOYS 85 THE ARRIVALS OF A SINGLE MONTH. Sixty Passengers came in one Month Twenty-eight in one Arrival Great Panic and Indignation Meeting Interesting Correspondence from Masters and Fugi- tives 97 A SLAVE GIRL'S NARRATIVE. Cordelia Loney, Slave of Mrs. Joseph Caheill, (widow of the late Hon. Joseph Caheill, of Virginia) Cordelia's Escape from her Mistress in Philadelphia 112 ARRIVAL OF JACKSON, ISAAC AND EDMONDSON TURNER FROM PETERSBURG. Touching Scene on Meeting their Old Blind Father at the U. G. R. R. Depot 117 ROBERT BROWN ALIAS THOMAS JONES. Crossing the River on Horseback in the Night 121 ANTHONY LONEY ALIAS WILLIAM ARMSTEAD AND CORNELIUS SCOTT. 122 SAMUEL WILLIAMS ALIAS JOHN WILLIAMS 123 BARNABY GRIGBY ALIAS JOHN BOYER, AND MARY ELIZABETH HIS WIFE, FRANK WANZER ALIAS ROBERT SCOTT, EMILY FOSTER ALIAS ANN WOOD .. . 124 CONTENTS. 11 PAGE WILLIAM JORDAN ALIAS WILLIAM PRICE 129 JOSEPH GRANT AND JOHN SPEAKS. Two Passengers via Liverpool 132 WILLIAM N. TAYLOR. "One Hundred Dollars Reward" 134 LOUISA BROWN, JACOB WATERS, AND ALFRED GOULDEN 135 ARRIVAL FROM BALTIMORE. Jefferson Pipkins alias David Jones, Louisa Pipkins, Elizabeth Brit, Harriet Brown, alias Jane Wooton, Gracy Murry alias Sophia Sims, Edward Williams alias Henry Johnson, Charles Lee alias Thomas Bushier 136 SEVERAL ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. Henry Anderson, Charles and Margaret Congo, Chaskey Brown, William Henry Washington, James Alfred Frisley, Charles Henry Salter, Stephen Taylor, Charles Brown, Charles H. Holli?, Luther Dorsey 137 ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND. Jeremiah W. Smith and wife Julia 141 EIGHT ARRIVALS. James Massey, Perry Henry Trusty, George Rhoads, James Rhoads, George Wash- ington, Sarah Elizabeth Rhoadd, and Child, Mary Elizabeth Stevenson 143 CHARLES THOMPSON, Carrier of "The National American" 146 BLOOD FLOWED FREELY. Abram Galloway and Richard Eden Secreted in a Vessel Loaded with Spirits of Turpentine Shrouds Prepared to Prevent being Smoked to Death Abram a Sol- dier under Father Abraham Senator of North Carolina 150 JOHN PETTIFOOT. " One Hundred Dollars Reward" Offered McHenry and McCulloch Anxious About John 153 EMANUEL T. WHITE. " Would rather Fight than Eat" 154 THE ESCAPE OF A CHILD FOURTEEN MONTHS OLD. Letter from "J. B. 1 ' Letters from E. L. Stevens... Great Anxiety and Care 155 ESCAPE OF A YOUNG SLAVE MOTHER. Baby, Little Girl and Husband left Behind Three Hundred Dollars Reward Offered 157 12 CONTENTS. SAMUEL W. JOHNSON. PAGE Arrival from the Richmond Daily Dispatch Office "Uncle Tom's Cabin" turned Sam's Brain Affecting Letters 158 FAMILY FROM BALTIMORE. Stephen Amos alias Henry Johnson, Harriet alias Mary Jane Johnson, and their four children, Ann Rebecca, William H., Elizabeth and Mary Ellen 160 ELIJAH HILTON, From Richmond " Five Hundred Dollars Reward" offered by R. J. Christian. ..Grate- ful letter from Canada 161 SOLOMON BROWN Arrived per City of Richmond Letter from Canada containing expressions of Grati- tude 163 WILLIAM HOGG ALIAS JOHN SMITH. Traveler from Maryland William was much troubled about his Wife left behind Letter from Canada 164 TWO FEMALE PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND. Ann Johnson and Lavina Woolfley Sold Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire 164 CAPTAIN F. AND THE MAYOR OF NORFOLK. Twenty-one Passengers secreted in Captain Fountain's Boat Mayor and Posse of Officers on the Boat searching for U. G. R. R. Passengers 165 ARRIVALS FROM DIFFERENT PLACES. Matilda Mahoney Dr. J. W. Pennington's Brother and Sons Great Adventure to deliver a Lover 172 FLEEING GIRL OF FIFTEEN IN MALE ATTIRE. Ann Maria Weems alias Joe Wright Great Triumph Arrival on Thanksgiving Day Interesting letters from J. Bigelow 177 FIVE YEARS AND ONE MONTH SECRETED. John Henry, Hezekiah and James Hill IS'J FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE. Archer Barlow, alias Emet Robins Samuel Bush alias William Oblebee John Spen- cer and his son William and James Albert Robert Fisher NATHAN HARRIS Hansel Waples Rosanna Tonnell, alias Maria Hyde Mary Ennis alias Licia Hemmit and two Children Lydia and Louisa Caroline 203 . SAM, ISAAC, PERRY. CHARLES AND GREEN. " One Thousand Dollars Reward"... .. 208 CONTENTS. 13 PAGE FROM RICHMOND AND NORFORK, VA. William B. White, Susan Brooks, and Win. Henry Atkinson 211 FOUR ARRIVALS. Charlotte and Harriet escape in deep Mourning White Lady and Child with a Col- ored Coachman Three likely Young Men from Baltimore Four large and two Small Hams U. G. R. R. Passengers Travelling with their Master's Horses and Carriage Six Passengers on two Horses, &c 214 FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NORTH CAROLINA, WASH- INGTON, D. C. AND SOUTH CAROLINA 223 CHARLES GILBERT, Fleeing from Davis, a Negro Trader Secreted under a Hotel Up a Tree Under a Floor In a Thicket On a Steamer 235 LIBERTY OR DEATH. Jim Bowlegs alias Bill Paul 240 SALT-WATER FUGITIVE 242 SAMUEL GREEN ALIAS WESLEY KINNARD. Ten Years in the Penitentiary for having a Copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin in his House '. 246 AN IRISH GIRL'S DEVOTION TO FREEDOM. In Love with a Slave Gets him off to Canada Follows him Marriage, &c 250 "SAM" NIXON ALIAS DR. THOMAS BAYNE. The Escape of a Dentist on the U. G. R. R. &c 254 SUNDRY ARRIVALS. From Loudoun County, Va., Norfolk, Baltimore, Md., Petersburg, Va., Ac 259 HEAVY REWARD. " Two Thousand Six Hundred Dollars Reward" Offered 272 SLAVE-TRADER HALL IS FOILED. Robert McCoy alias William Donar, and Elizabeth Sanders, arrived per steamer 274 THE PROTECTION OF SLAVE PROPERTY IN VIRGINIA. A Bill providing additional Protection for the Slave Property of Citizens of this Com- monwealth 277 ESCAPING IN A CHEST. "One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward" Lear G'reen 281 ISAAC WILLIAMS, HENRY BANKS AND KIT NICKLESS 284 14 CONTENTS. ARRIVAL OP FIVE FROM THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND. PAGE Cyrus Mitchell alias John Steel, Joshua Handy alias Hambleton Hamby, Charles Dutton alias William Robinson, Ephraim Hudson alias John Spry, Francis Molock alias Thomas Jackson 286 SUNDRY ARRIVALS ABOUT AUGUST IST, 1855. Francis Billiard and Others 287 DEEP FURROWS ON THE BACK. Thomas Madden 294 PETER MATHEWS ALIAS SAMUEL SPARROWS. "I might as well be in the Penitentiary as in Slavery." 295 "MOSES" ARRIVES WITH SIX PASSENGERS 296 ESCAPED FROM "A WORTHLESS SOT." John Atkinson 299 WILLIAM BUTCHER ALIAS Wm. T. MTCHELL. He was abuseful" 300 "WHITE ENOUGH TO PASS" 301 ESCAPING WITH MASTER'S CARRIAGES AND HORSES. Harriet Shephard, and her five Children with five other Passengers 302 EIGHT AND A HALF MONTHS SECRETED. Washington Somlor alias James Moore 304 ARTHUR FOWLER ALIAS BENJAMIN JOHNSON 305 SUNDRY ARRIVALS. About the 1st of June, 1855 Emory Roberts and others 305 SUNDRY ARRIVALS ABOUT JANUARY IST, 1855. Verenea Mercer and others 309 SLAVE-HOLDER IN MARYLAND WITH THREE COLORED WIVES. James Griffin alias Thomas Brown 314 CAPTAIN F. ARRIVES WITH NINE PASSENGERS. Names of Passengers 316 OWEN AND OTHO TAYLOR'S FLIGHT WITH HORSES, &c 330 CONTENTS. 15 HEAVY REWARD. PAGE Three Hundred Dollars Reward "Tom" gone 324 CAPT. F. ARRIVES WITH FOURTEEN "PRIME ARTICLES" ON BOARD 325 SUNDRY ARRIVALS, LATTER PART OF DECEMBER, 1855, AND BE- GINNING OF JANUARY, 1856. Joseph Cornish and others 334 PART OF THE ARRIVALS IN DECEMBER, 1855. Thomas J. Gooseberry and others 339 THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL OF 1850. " An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons Escaping from the Servi- ces of their Masters." 343 THE SLAVE HUNTING TRAGEDY IN LANCASTER COUNTY, IN SEPTEMBER, 1851. "Treason at Christiana" 348 WILLIAM AND ELLEN CRAFT. Female Slave in Male Attire, fleeing as a Planter, with her Husband as her Body Servant 3G8 ARRIVALS FROM RICHMOND. Lewis Cobb and Nancy Brister 377 PASSENGERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA, [Br SCHOONER.] Major Latham, William Wilson, Henry Goram, Wiley Madison, and Andrew Shep- herd .' 379 THOMAS CLINTON, SAUNEY PRY AND BENJAMIN DUCKET. Passed over the U. G. R. R. in the Fall of 1856 3S2 ARRIVALS IN APRIL, 1856. Charles Hall and others 383 FIVE FROM GEORGETOWN CROSS-ROADS. Mother and Child from Norfolk, Va., &c 386 PASSENGERS FROM MARYLAND. William Henry MOODY, BELINDA BIVANS, &c 388 ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND 390 ARRIVAL FROM WASHINGTON, D. C.,