Authors: Elisa Carbone
Text copyright © 1998 by Elisa Carbone
Newspaper advertisement on page iii courtesy of Montgomery County Historical
Society from the
Montgomery County Sentinel
, December 8, 1855.
Photograph on page iii courtesy of Montgomery County Historical Society from
The Underground Rail Road
by William Still, 1872.
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