59,65,164,302;increase in frequency of,308;effect of Prigg decision on,309;after passage of law of 1850,316;instances of,317.Purvis, Robert, record of number of fugitives helped by,10,346;president of organized society of the U. G. R. R.,68,309;account of the organization by,68;chairman of the General Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia,75;in rescue of Basil Dorsey,85;New Jersey route described by,125;on abduction by son of a planter,153.Putnam, David, underground letters of,10;record of night service at station of,55,56;secret signal used by,56;facsimile of message received by,57.Putnam, George W., on route in New Hampshire,133.Quakers, Levi Coffin one of the,4;underground centres in communities of,6,90,115-120,125;Alum Creek Settlement of,10;agents and operators among the,31,38,39,53,92,94,98,124,131;pro-slavery sentiment among,49;costume of, used as a disguise,67;Washington's comment on a society of Philadelphia,68;as conservators of abolition ideas,93;result of appeal to societies of, in Massachusetts,99;political affiliations of,100;devotees of U. G. R. R. work among,110-112;John Brown's party entertained by, in Iowa,164;words of the Quaker poet, Whittier, quoted,171;Quaker abductor Richard Dillingham,174;at Richmond, Ind., befriend Josiah Henson,177;at Fountain City, Ind.,199;visits of several, to Canadian refugees,199;safety sought by fugitive settlers among,235,236;protection afforded fugitives by Quakers of New Bedford, Mass.,258;defendants in case of rescue,274;in Christiana case,280,281;petition of Baltimore, against kidnapping,296;memorial of, for repeal of Fugitive Slave Law,324;record of fugitives in Alum Creek Settlement of,344-346.Quebec, early emigration of fugitive slaves to,218.Queen's Bush, early settlement of, by refugees,204,218.Quincy, Ill., multiple routes of,141.Quincy, Josiah, his account of first known rescue of fugitive under arrest quoted,83,84;opponent of fugitive slave legislation,283.Quitman, Gen. John A.,341.Quixot, Stephen, fugitive from Virginia,51.Racine, Wis., Glover rescue in,327.Railroads, steam, use of, for transportation of fugitives,35,59,78-81,122-124,128,130,132,133,142-145,164,165,183;terminology of U. G. R. R. borrowed from vocabulary of,67.Railroad, Underground.SeeUnderground Railroad.Ramsey, Rev. R. G., on route in southern Illinois,14.Randolph, the slave, in case of Commonwealthvs.Griffith,258.Rankin, Rev. John, reward for abduction of,53;secret cellar in barn of,63;anti-slavery preaching and practice of,96;station of, at Ripley, O.,109;on immediate abolition,306,307;Letters on Slaveryby,308.Rantoul, Robert, Jr., counsel for fugitive slaves,283.Rathbun, Levi, station-keeper,69,70.Ratliff, Hon. John,15,16.Ray, Rev. Chas. B., on New York routes,126.Rayvs.Donnell and Hamilton, case of,278.Reading Railroad,122.Rebellion, Lincoln's proclamation regarding states continuing in,287.Recollections of an Abolitionist, by Dr. A. M. Ross,179-183.Redpath, James, on effects of John Brown's raid,165.Reed, Fitch, on arrival of abductor Fairfield and company of slaves in Canada,154n.Reed, Gen., fugitives carried by boats of,82.Reed, John, on misinformation about Canada among slaves,198.Reform party, political affiliations of negro voters in Canada with,233.Refugees' Home Settlement, of Canadian refugees,205,209,210;regulations of,215-217;dissatisfaction in,216,217.Reminiscences, collection of,11;value of,12-16.Rendition of escaped slaves, early Northern sentiment on, Southern sentiment regarding,21;question of, in crisis of 1851,285;of Sims in Boston,317;of Burns,331-333.Republican Leader, the, articles on the U. G. R. R. in,6.Republican party, effect ofUncle Tom's Cabinon young voters in,324;forerunner of, in Wisconsin,329;chief reliance of freedom declared to be in, repeal of Fugitive Slave Law demanded by,337;organized U. G. R. R. said to be maintained by,351;four governors belonging to, advise repeal of personal liberty bills,354.Rescue, of fugitives,38,39,83-86,240,275,276,284,336;attempts at, after 1850,240,273;provisions of law of 1850 to prevent,266;of slaves, an expensive undertaking,277;increase in frequency of,308;during era of slave-hunting in the North,316;of Shadrach,317,319;of Jerry McHenry,318,320;of Glover,327-330;of Burns, attempted,331-333.Reynolds, Hon. John, on spirit of nullification in Illinois,333,334.Rhode Island, anti-slavery Quakers in,31;rise of U. G. R. R. in,36;steam railroad transportation for fugitives in,80;underground centres in,94;routes of,131;station at Valley Falls,144;reception to Capt. Walker at Providence,171;personal liberty law of,245,246,309;colonial law against aiding fugitives in,292;emancipation by,293;repeal of personal liberty law by,354.Rhodes, James Ford, on the U. G. R. R.,1;on remote political effect ofUncle Tom's Cabin,324;on spirit of the personal liberty laws,338n.Rice, Rev. Isaac J., mission in Canada kept by,194,200;supplies kept for refugees by,214.Richardson, Lewis, cause of flight of,27.Richmond, Va., fugitive shipped from, in a box,60;fugitives escape by boat from,145.Riddle, Albert G., counsel in Oberlin-Wellington case,282.Ripley, O., John Rankin in,109,306;abductor at,153;escape of Eliza across Ohio River at,322.River routes of U. G. R. R.,81,82,118,123,129,134,138,142;crossings on Detroit River,147;Jefferson Davis on escape of slaves by Mississippi River,312,313.Robin case, slavery terminated in Lower Canada by decision in,191.Robinson, case ofex parte,270,282.Robinson, Rowland E., on routes in Vermont,130.Ross, Dr. A. M., abductor,28-30,178-182;as a naturalist,183.Ruggles, David, agent in New York City,35,126;Frederick Douglass befriended by,71n.Russell, Hon. A. J., operator,107.Rycraft, colleague of Booth in the Glover rescue case,329.Sabin, Hon. Alvah, operator,107.Salsburg family,87.Sanborn, F. B., on Harriet Tubman,186;on number of fugitive settlers in Northern states,237;letter to, on the U. G. R. R. depot at Lawrence, Kan.,347-350.San Domingo, servile insurrection in,340.Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad,78.Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad,78.Sandusky, O., first fugitive at, (1820,) 39;arrival of company of fugitives at,76;boat service from,83;prosecution of Rush R. Sloane of,210,276;as a terminal,183,185;trial of F. D. Parish of,277.Saxton, Gen. Rufus, on work of Harriet Tubman,189.Sayres, indictment of, for attempted abduction,173.Schooley, W. D., operator,88.Schools, for refugees in Canada,199,200,205-208,210,214,215,228,229;Sunday-schools,330.Scioto Company, organized by anti-slavery men,38.Scotch-Irish, the, in underground service,92.Scotch, the, in underground service,92.Scott, Gen. Winfield, presidential candidate of Whigs,321.Scott, James, tried for aiding in rescue of Shadrach,269,270.Scripture, quoted by the abolitionists,150,306,307.Sea routes of the U. G. R. R.,81,82,118,129,133,144,145,148,219.Seceders, friends of runaways,13.Secession, begun,352,353;efforts of the legislatures of the Northern states to appease the spirit of,354;North's refusal to surrender fugitives one of the chief reasons for,357.Sentinel, the, articles in, on the Underground Railroad,6.Sentinel, the, chapters of "A History of Anti-Slavery Days" in,6.Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, on new Fugitive Slave Bill,297.Seward, F. W., on places of deportation of fugitive slaves,145n.Seward, Wm. H., gives bail for Gen. Chaplin,176;on Harriet Tubman,185;aid given to Harriet Tubman by,189;in the Van Zandt case,282;speech advising hospitality to fugitive slaves,313;signs the bond of rescuers of Jerry McHenry,320.Sewell, Samuel E., counsel for fugitive slaves,283.Shadrach, route taken by, after his rescue in Boston,132;counsel in case of,283;seizure of,247;rescue of,317,319.Shaw, Chief Justice, on Slave Law of 1793,270.Sheldon, Edward, indicted for helping fugitives,284.Shotwell, A. L., claimant of slave Tamar,159.Sider, Joseph, abductor,60,157.Sidney, Allen, on misinformation about Canada among slaves,197.Signals, employed in the U. G. R. R service,125,156.Sims, Theodore Parker's memoranda on rendition of,8;case of, in court,269-271,283;returned to slavery,317.Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad, by E. M. Pettit,2,4.Skillgess, Joseph, on fugitives passing through Ross County, O.,39.Slave-hunters, authors of Levi Coffin's title "President of the U. G. R. R.,"111;at Detroit,147;difficulties met by,242,243;imprisonment of,273,274;number of, increased after passage of the Fugitive Slave Law,316;in the Oberlin-Wellington case,335,336;protest against the employment of Northern troops as,355.Slave-hunting, engagement of shiftless class in,239;by Southern planters and their aids,240;uncertainty of, in anti-slavery communities,242,243;Mr. Mason, of Virginia, on,243;agents of slave-owners employed in,316.Slavery, character of, at beginning of nineteenth century,25;changed character of later,26;John Brown's plan of abolition of,168;in Canada,190,191;attacks on, in Congress,286;abolished in District of Columbia,287;King's proposition to prohibit, in Northwest Territory,293;conviction of sin of, in Northern states,300,301;pursuit of fugitives creates opposition to, in the North,302;early advocacy of political action against, by Bourne and Duncan, Rev. John Rankin's hatred of,306;address of Liberty party convention touching on,310;effect of prosecution of U. G. R. R. workers on question of,317;nationalized by law of 1850,321;effects of, studied by Harriet Beecher Stowe,321;renewal of consideration of question of, caused byUncle Tom's Cabin,324;U. G. R. R., the safety-valve of,340;disappearance of, in District of Columbia attributed to the U. G. R. R. by Claiborne,341,342;extinction of, in the United States,356,358.Slaves, desire for freedom among,25,195-197;purchase of, by Alabama,26;incentives to flight of,26,27,296;knowledge of Canada among,28-30,197;arrive as stowaways on the Maine coast,133;steady increase in the number of, fleeing into Ohio,135;from Virginia,144;movement of, to inter-lake portion of Ontario,147;abduction of, opposed by majority of abolitionists,150;abduction of, by negroes,151;abductions of, by Canadian refugees,152;abductions of, by Southern whites,153;abduction of, by Northern whites,154,155;abduction of, in District of Columbia,155;abduction of, by Burr, Work and Thompson,155,156;abduction of, by Joseph Sider and Calvin Fairbank,157-160;abduction of, by Seth Concklin,160-162;abduction of, by John Brown,162-165;effect of John Brown's raid upon Missouri,165;Brown's plan for liberation of,166-168;abductions of, in answer to appeal,168,by Charles T. Torrey,168-170,by Capt. Jonathan Walker,170,171,by Mrs. Laura S. Haviland,171,172;capture and incarceration of the, escaping on the steamerPearl,172,173;abductions of, by Capt. Daniel Drayton,172-174,by Richard Dillingham,174,175,by Wm. L. Chaplin,175,176,by Josiah Henson,176-178,by Rial Cheadle,178,179,by Dr. A. M. Ross,179-183,by the fugitive Elijah Anderson,183,by the fugitive John Mason,183-185,by the fugitive Harriet Tubman,185-189;importation of, into Canada,190,191;Elgin Settlement in Canada started by a band of manumitted,202,207;Wilberforce Colony originally settled by group of emancipated,218;domestic relations of, in Southern states,227,228;agents of U. G. R. R. appealed to for abduction of,231,232;Northern states an unsafe refuge for,238,239;purchase of, from their claimants,241,242;causes of flight of,308;conditions favorable to escape of, 1840-1850,309;effect of flight of, on Northern sentiment,310;addresses to Southern,310;address of Cazenovia convention to,313;information about abolitionists among,316;danger of uprising of, lessened by the U. G. R. R.,340;prospect of stampede of, from the border slave states, in case of secession,355;chances for escape of, multiplied during War,355.Slave trade, effect of prohibition of, (1807,)301.Sloane, Hon. Rush R.,on the U. G. R. R. in northwestern Ohio,39;account given by, of the naming of the Road,45;prosecution of,102;incident of embarkation of company of refugees given by,148n.;on Elijah Anderson, abductor,183;fined for assisting runaways,276,277.Sloane, John, early operator,37.Sloane, J. R. W.,13.Sloane, Prof. Wm. M.,13n.Sloane, Rev. William,14,15.Smedley, R. C.,author ofThe Underground Railroad in Chester and Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania,2,4;account of naming of the U. G. R. R. by,44,45;on loss of bondmen by Maryland counties,119;on numbers of fugitives sent to New England,128,129;on transportation of fugitives by rail,143.Smith, Gerrit,operator,22,27,107;generosity of,176;on Harriet Tubman,185;defiant speech of, after Jerry rescue,320;one of the leaders in the Jerry rescue,326;counsel for the fugitive Wm. Anderson in Canada,353.Smith, James,154.Smith, William R., work of, in behalf of Gen. Chaplin,176.Snediger family, operators,87.Society of Friends.SeeQuakers.Sorrick, Rev. R. S. W.,on the condition of refugees in Oro, Ontario,218;on the teachableness of the Canadian refugees,224.South Carolina,abducting trip of A. M. Ross into,29;agent of U. G. R. R. in Newberne,68;involved in Brown's plan of liberation,167;Canadian refugees from,195;Pinckney on slave clause in United States Constitution before state convention of,294;doctrine of state sovereignty of, resisted by Wisconsin,330;servile insurrections in,340;Butler of, on loss sustained by slave-owners of Southern section,341;withdrawal from the Union,352.