Authors: Fergus Bordewich
Fantis
Farney, John
Federalists
Ferrisburgh, Vt.
Fifteenth Amendment
Fillmore, Millard
Fitch, Henry
Florida: black population of
fugitive slaves in
secession of
slavery in
Walker's rescue attempt in
Foote, Henry
Ford, Henry
Ford, Horace
Ford, Nelson
Forten, James
Foster, George
Fourteenth Amendment
Fox, George
France
revolution of 1848 in
in slave trade
Francis (fugitive slave)
Franklin, Benjamin
Frederick Douglass' Paper,
free blacks: in abolitionist movement
African repatriation and
in Canada
in Canadian military
in Christiana resistance
in Civil War
education of
Fugitive Slave Law and
fugitive slaves' betrayal by
institutions established by
kidnapping of
laws discriminating against
in merchant marine
Nat Turner rebellion and
in North
in Philadelphia
racial prejudice against
rights of
settlements of
in South
in underground railroad
violence by
see also specific persons
Freedmen's Aid Commission
Free Labor Advocate and Anti-Slavery
Standard,
Free Soil Party
Free Staters (Kansas)
Frémont, John C.
French, Rodney
French Revolution
Friedman, Levin
Friedman, Peter
Friedman, Peter (son)
Friedman, Vina
Friend of Man,
Friends of Human Rights
Frothingham, Octavius
Fugitive Slave Act (1793)
state laws opposing
Fugitive Slave Law (1850)
Civil War status of
Garner tragedy and
Northern opposition to
provisions of
underground railroad and
unenforceability of
fugitive slaves
Constitution and
education of
Fugitive Slave Law's effect on
kidnapping of escaped
laws on
longest prison sentence for aiding
Native Americans and
newspaper notices for
in North
north star as guide for
patrols and hunting of
in Pennsylvania
reasons for flight of
refugee communities of
rewards for capture of
slaveholders' self-delusion about
see also
free blacks;
specific persons
Fuller, Benoni S.
Fuller, James Canning
Fulton, Robert
Fussell, Bartholemew
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Gabriel (slave uprising leader)
Gaines, Archibald
Gallatin, Albert
Gardner, William
Garner, Cilla
Garner, Margaret
Garner, Mary
Garner, Robert
Garnet, Henry Highland
Garrett, Rachel
Garrett, Thomas
Harriet Tubman and
Garrison, William Lloyd
Constitution denounced by
on Daniel Webster
Douglass and
at first national abolitionist convention
Liberator
published by
Northern secession supported by
violence against
Wilberforce settlement and
women's rights movement and
Gavitt, John Smith
Genius of Universal Emancipation,
George (fugitive slave)
George III, king of England
Georgia: secession of
slavery in
slave trade in
Germantown, Pa., slavery protest in
Gibbons, Daniel
Gibbons, James S.
Gibbons, Phebe
Gilbert, Deacon
Gilbery, Hiram
Gist, Samuel
Gist settlement (Ohio)
Gold Coast
Gold Rush
Gone With the Wind,
Goodell, William
Gorham, Henry
Gorsuch, Dickinson
Gorsuch, Edward
Gorsuch, Joshua
Gragston, Arnold
Graham (Peterboro guest)
Graydon, Alexander
Great Britain: emancipation movement in
slavery abolished by
slave trade by
Great Dismal Swamp, Va.
Green, Beriah
Green, Samuel
Green, Shields
Greene, Mrs. Nathaniel
Greensboro, N. C.
Griffith, Camillus
Griffith (Pennsylvania abolitionist)
Griffiths, Julia
Grimes, William
Grimke, Angelina
Grimke, Sarah
Grinnell, Josiah
Grose, David
Grose, William
Gunther, John
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Hagedorn, Ann
Haines, William
Haiti (Sante-Domingue)
Hall, John
Hall, William A.
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, William
Hamilton's Saul (slave)
Hamlet, James
Hammond, George
Hammond, Joshua
Hanway, Castner
Happy, Jesse
Harpers Ferry, Va.
Harrington, Theophilus
Harrison, William Henry
Harrold, Stanley
Harry (fugitive slave)
Harvard Law School, as beneficiary of slave trade
Haviland, Laura
Hawke
(slave ship)
Hayden, Harriet
Hayden, Joseph
Hayden, Lewis
rescue of
Shadrach rescue and
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Hazlett (Harpers Ferry raider)
Head, Francis
Hegel, Friedrich
Hemings, Sally
Hemsley, Alexander
Henry, Patrick
Henry, William “Jerry,”
Henry Lewis
(steamboat)
Henson, Charlotte
escape of
Henson, Josiah
assault on mother of
auction of family of
autobiography of
birth of
in Canada
in Cincinnati
Dawn Institute of
death of
effort to purchase freedom by
entrepreneurial nature of
escape of
in Kentucky
Kentucky journey of
literacy of
as model for Stowe's Uncle Tom
New Orleans trip of
punishment of father of
Refugee Home Society and
religious conversion of
Riley's deception of
Riley's relationship with
as slave overseer
as teacher
in underground railroad
Henson, Tom
Hewlett, William S.
Hiatt, Allen
Hibbard (farmer)
Hicks, Elias
Hicksites
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
n Hoag, Joseph
Hopkins (Ripley abolitionist)
Hopper, Abby
Hopper, Isaac Tatum
abolitionist network of
David Ruggles and
death of
financial problems of
legal skills of
on Northern secession
rescues effected by
and Tom Hughes case
Hopper, John
Hopper, Sarah
Horniblow, Joseph
Horniblow, Molly
Hough, Daniel
House of Representatives, U.S.
gag rule in
Southern representation in
Howard, John
Howard University
Howe, Julia Ward
Howe, Samuel Gridley
Howells (innkeeper)
Huber, Charles
Hudson, David
Hudson, John D.
Hudson, Sally
Huff, Daniel
Hughes, Tom
Hume, David
Hunter, Carol
Hussey, Erastus
Hyden, William
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Ibos
Ike (slave)
Illinois: rights of blacks in
slavery in
underground railroad in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(Jacobs)
indentured servants
Indiana:
Quakers in
racial discrimination in
slavery in
underground railroad in
Indiana Yearly Meeting
Indian Territory
Indian wars
Industrial Resources of the Southern and
Western States, The
(DeBow)
Industrial Revolution, slave trade's impact on
Internet, underground railroad compared with
Iowa
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Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Ben
Jackson, Jacob
Jackson, James Caleb
Jackson, Peter
Jackson, Prince
Jackson (stationmaster)
Jacobs, Harriet
Jacobs, John
Jacobs, Joseph
Jacobs, Louisa
Jay, John
Jay, William
Jefferson, Thomas
ambivalence toward slavery and race of
emancipation plan of
inauguration of
miscegenation opposed by
racial prejudice of
and slavery extension issue
Jerry rescue
Johnson, Abraham
Johnson, Bushrod
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, Frederick (Frederick Douglass)
Johnson, Moses
Johnson, Nathan
Johnson, Oliver
John W. Richmond,
S. S.
Jolliffe, John
Jones, Alfred T.
Jones, Monroe
Â
Kagi, John
Kansas
Free Staters in
John Brown in
population of
rival governments of
underground railroad in
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Kelley, Abby
Kelly, Jonah
Kennedy, John
Kennedy, Milton
Kentucky
emancipation in
slave population of
underground railroad in
Key, Francis Scott
Key, Philip Barton
Kimber, Emmor
King, Boston
King, Mary
King, William
Kite, Elijah
Kline, Henry H.
Knapp, Chauncey
Knights of the Golden Circle
Â
labor movement
“Lady of the Lake” (Scott)
Lafayette, Marquis de
Lambert, William
Lancaster, Ind.
Lancaster County, Pa.
Lane Seminary
Langston, John Mercer
Larson, Kate Clifford
Larwill, Edwin
Latimer, George
Lawrence, Kans.
Lawrence, Luther
Lear, James
Leary, Lewis
Lee, Richard Henry
Lee, Robert E.
Leflore, Greenwood
Leggatt, Isaac
Leverton, Hannah
Lewis, Elijah
Lewis, Graceanna
Lewis, Israel
Lewis and Clark expedition
Liberator,
Liberia
Liberty Party
Life on the Mississippi
(Twain)
Lightfoot, James
Lincoln, Abraham
election of
Emancipation Proclamation of
slavery position of
Stowe and
Lionville, Pa.
Livingston, Philip
Locke, John
Logue, Abe
Logue, Ann
Logue, Cherry
Logue, Dave
Logue, Jarm
in Canada
kidnapping of mother of
see also
Loguen, Jermain
Logue, Manasseth
Logue, Sarah
Loguen, Caroline
Loguen, Jermain
death of
Fugitive Slave Law defied by
in Jerry rescue
John Brown and
Smith land grant plan and
as “underground railroad king,”
see also
Logue, Jarm
Loguen, Latitia
Loney, Robert
Lorenzo (fugitive)
Louisiana
fugitive slave laws in
fugitive slaves in
secession of
slave trade in
Louisiana Purchase
Louis Philippe, king of France
Louisville, Ky.
Lovejoy, Elijah P.
Lundy, Benjamin
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McCague, Thomas
McClennan (New York doctor)
McClintock, Elizabeth
McCormick, Cyrus
McCormick (Canadian)
McCoy family
McCrummel, James
McElligott, Tommy
McKenney, John
McKiernan, Bernard
Macon, Nathaniel
McPherson, Josiah
Madison, Dolley
Madison, Ind.
Madison, James
Mahan, John B.
Maine
Malvin, John
Mandingos