The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region

Tom Calarco is a professional writer whose antislavery research is widely recognized. He was awarded the 2008 Underground Railroad Free Press Prize for advancing the knowledge and study of the Underground Railroad. He lives in Ohio.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     

Preface     



PART I: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN NORTHERN NEW YORK AND ITS ROLE IN THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

Introduction     

1. The Legend     

2. Roots     

3. The Higher Law     

4. Jehovah Has Decreed It!     

5. The Sword Is Now Drawn     

6. On Account of Color     

7. The Byway to Freedom     

8. Establishing Outposts     

9. Another Strategy     

10. The Forgotten Abolitionist     

11. Heard It Through the Grapevine     

12. Roll It Along     

13. Death and Transfiguration     

14. A Breach Has Been Made     

15. Fat of the Land     

16. Exodus     

17. In Search of the Promised Land     

18. Voices Crying in the Wilderness     

19. To the Rescue     

20. Family Matters     

21. Go West, Young Abolitionist     

22. Never Half What It Is Now     

23. All Aboard!     

24. Marching to Immortality     



PART II: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STOPS IN EASTERN NEW YORK FROM NEW YORK CITY TO CANADA

Introduction     

25. Stops in New York City     

26. Stops in the Mid-Hudson Region     

27. Stops in Albany County     

28. Stops in Rensselaer County     

29. Stops in Washington County     

30. Stops in Clinton County     

31. Stops in Saratoga County     

32. Stops in Warren County     

33. Stops in Essex and Franklin Counties     

34. Stops in St. Lawrence County     



APPENDICES

I: Delegates to the Organizational Meeting of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society, Utica (October 21, 1835)     

II: Anti-Slavery Societies in Northeastern New York (Before 1840)     

III: Fugitives from Slavery Who Passed Through Albany     

IV: Leadership of the Orthodox Congregational Church, Union Village     

V: Statistics on the Black Population in the Town of Greenwich, 1840 to 1860     

VI: Homes with Probable Abolitionist Sympathizers Described in Everest’s Pioneer Homes     

VII: Possible Participants in Eastern New York’s Underground Railroad     



Works Cited     

Index