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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY
Wilbur H. Siebert
With an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. Mineola, New York
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is an unabridged republication of The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom, originally published by The Macmillan Company, New York and London, in 1898. The original fold-out map facing page 113 has now been set into the book on three separate pages in the same location.
International Standard Book Number: 0-486-45039-2
Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N. Y. 11501
To My Wife