Describes Underground Railroad operations through Battle Creek, gives brief histories of several black families, and of Sojourner Truth, lists blacks and their occupations as given in 1869-70 Calhoun County Business Directory, and gives current…
Biography of the founder of the Raisin Institute near Adrian and "Superintendent" of the Underground Railroad in Michigan, describes many slave escapes.
Volume 1 of this unindexed work describes sale of slaves (p. 196); legislation on slavery (p. 227-228); colored schools (p. 743). Includes chapter on slavery and the underground railroad (p. 475-484).