Texas State Archives Map Collection
Underground Routes to Canada Showing Lines of Travel of Fugitive Slaves
| Date: | 1898 |
| Publisher: | Bombay and Company, New York, 1898. |
| Cartographer: |
Sierbert, W.H. |
| Scale: | 1 inch = 200 miles |
| Size: | 17 cm x 36 cm |
| Type of Map: | other |
| Format: | photostat, white on black |
| Language: | English |
| AC Number: | 00058 |
| Photo Media: | -- None Listed -- |
Underground Routes to Canada Showing Lines of Travel of Fugitive Slaves Image:
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Description:
In addition to the underground routes, states, rivers, lakes, and railroads are shown. Some routes have notes beside them. States shown are Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and parts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Inset: Map showing the lines of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania. Based on R.C. Smedley's History of the Road in these counties. Photostat.
Long. 70 - 95 deg.
4/8/82
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