More Western Memories: How slaves were harbored and forwarded to canada before the war

Title: More Western Memories: How slaves were harbored and forwarded to canada before the war
Is part of: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The
Publisher: I. Van Anden
Place: Brooklyn, NY
Date: 24 May 1887
Language: English
Temporal coverage: 1841-1963
Description: An excerpt from the article, "The manager of the underground [railroad] depot at this point [in Indiana] was a colored man - a cooper - named Barkshire, who had formerly been a slave, but who had purchased his freedom as well as that of his wife and four children. He was always well posed as to the movements of runaways, and ready to either hide them till the excitement attendant upon their escape had died out or pass them along. He was constantly on the alert, and many a man and woman passed through his hands on the way to Canada or the Western Reserve. His house was always open as a shelter to the runaways."; Accessed online at Newspapers.com
Related resource: https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/60787894/
Bibliographic citation: About the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83031151/>

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