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| Mealy, Todd. Biography of an Antislavery City: Antislavery Advocates, Abolitionists, and Underground Railroad Activists in Harrisburg, PA. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2007. | Book | Secondary | 2007 | Full Record | |
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| Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979. | Book | Secondary | 1979 | Full Record | |
| Runyon, Randolph, and William Albert Davis. Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. | Book | Secondary | 1996 | Full Record | |
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Bordewich, Fergus M. Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement. New York: Amistad, 2006. |
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