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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06839 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1870s |
| Title | Sketches in the history of the Underground Railroad... |
| Date | 1879 |
| Author | Pettit, Eber (fl. 1879) |
| Document Type | Book |
| Content Description | Title continued: "Comprising many thrilling incidents of the escape of fugitives from slavery and the perils to those who aided them." First edition, with mounted albumen photograph frontispiece of Pettit. Original publishers brown cloth. Pettit was one of the chief conductors of the Underground Railroad. Not in Blockson Collection. Schomburg 326.973F-P, Work p.338. |
| Subjects | Underground Railroad Slavery Fugitive Slave Act Runaway Slave African American History |
| People | Pettit, Eber |
| Place written | Fredonia, New York |
| 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 |