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Whitman, T. Stephen. " ‘Just Over the Line’: Chester County and the Underground Railroad." Journal of American History 90, no. 1 (June 2003): 179-183. |
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| Nelson, Truman John. The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. | Book | Secondary | 1973 | Full Record | |
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| Hagedorn, Ann. Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. | Book | Secondary | 2002 | Full Record | |
| Parker, John P. His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad. Edited by Stuart Sprague. New York: Norton, 1996. | Book | Primary | 1996 | Full Record | |
| Frost, Karolyn Smardz. I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. | Book | Secondary | 2007 | Full Record | |
| Tobin, Jacqueline, and Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 1999. | Book | Secondary | 1999 | Full Record | |
| Blockson, Charles L. African Americans in Pennsylvania: Above Ground and Underground: An Illustrated Guide. Harrisburg, PA: RB Books, 2001. | Book | Secondary | 2001 | Full Record | |
| Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1987. | Book | Secondary | 1987 | Full Record | |
| Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Jacksonville, NC: Flame International, 1981. | Book | Secondary | 1981 | Full Record | |
Bradley, David. The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. |
Book | Secondary | 1981 | Full Record | |
| Bramble, Linda. Black Fugitive Slaves in Early Canada. Vanwell History Project Series. St. Catharines, ON: Vanwell Pub. Co., 1988. | Book | Secondary | 1988 | Full Record | |
| Brandt, Nat. The Town that Started the Civil War. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990. | Book | Secondary | 1990 | Full Record | |
Buckmaster, Henrietta. Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959. |
Book | Secondary | 1959 | Full Record | |
| Buckmaster, Henrietta. Flight to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Crowell, 1958. | Book | Secondary | 1958 | Full Record | |
| Burke, Henry Robert and Dick Croy. The River Jordan: A True Story of the Underground Railroad. Marietta, OH: Watershed Books, 1999. | Book | Secondary | 1999 | Full Record | |
| Calarco, Tom. The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004. | Book | Secondary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Chadwick, Bruce. Traveling the Underground Railroad : A Visitor's Guide to More than 300 Sites. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1999. | Book | Secondary | 1999 | Full Record | |
| Chiaverini, Jennifer. The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. | Book | Secondary | 2002 | Full Record | |
| Coddon, Karin S., ed. Runaway Slaves. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2004. | Book | Primary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Collison, Gary Lee. Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. | Book | Secondary | 1997 | Full Record | |
| DeRamus, Betty. Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad. New York: Atria Books, 2005. | Book | Secondary | 2005 | Full Record | |
| DeVita, James. A Midnight Cry: The Underground Railroad to Freedom, a Musical. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Pub., 2004. | Book | Secondary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Drew, Benjamin. The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada: Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored People of Upper Canada. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004. | Book | Primary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Eisan, Frances K. Saint Or Demon? The Legendary Delia Webster Opposing Slavery. New York: Pace University Press, 1998. | Book | Secondary | 1998 | Full Record | |
| Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. | Book | Secondary | 1994 | Full Record | |
| Frazier, Harriet C. Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004. | Book | Secondary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Glenelg. Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson from Slavery to Freedom. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2001. | Book | Primary | 2001 | Full Record | |
| Haley, Alex. A Different Kind of Christmas. New York: Doubleday, 1988. | Book | Secondary | 1988 | Full Record | |
| Hansen, Ellen. The Underground Railroad: Life on the Road to Freedom. Perspectives on History Series. Lowell, MA: Discovery Enterprises, 1993. | Book | Secondary | 1993 | Full Record | |
| Heidish, Marcy. A Woman Called Moses: A Novel Based on the Life of Harriet Tubman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. | Book | Secondary | 1976 | Full Record | |
| Hudson, J. Blaine. Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2006. | Book | Tertiary | 2006 | Full Record | |
| Hudson, J. Blaine. Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2002. | Book | Secondary | 2002 | Full Record | |
| Humez, Jean McMahon. Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. | Book | Secondary | 2003 | Full Record | |
| Kashatus, William C. In Pursuit of Freedom: Teaching the Underground Railroad. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005. | Book | Secondary | 2005 | Full Record | |
| Kashatus, William C. Just Over the Line: Chester County and the Underground Railroad. West Chester, PA: Chester County Historical Society, 2002. | Book | Secondary | 2002 | Full Record | |
| King, Roger A. The Underground Railroad in Orange County, NY: The Silent Rebellion. Monroe, NY: Library Research Associates, 1999. | Book | Secondary | 1999 | Full Record | |
Klees, Emerson. Underground Railroad Tales: With Routes through the Finger Lakes Region. Rochester, NY: Friends of the Finger Lakes Pub, 1997. |
Book | Secondary | 1997 | Full Record | |
| Lansana, Quraysh Ali. They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems. Chicago: Third World Press, 2004. | Book | Secondary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine, 2004. | Book | Secondary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Lowry, Beverly. Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 2007. | Book | Secondary | 2007 | Full Record | |
| Ludwig, Charles. Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1975. | Book | Secondary | 1975 | Full Record | |
| McGowan, James A. Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2005. | Book | Secondary | 2005 | Full Record | |
| Mitchell, W. M. The Under-Ground Railroad. Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970. | Book | Secondary | 1970 | Full Record | |
| Monfredo, Miriam Grace. North Star Conspiracy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. | Book | Secondary | 1993 | Full Record | |
| Morgans, James Patrick. John Todd and the Underground Railroad: Biography of an Iowa Abolitionist. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2006. | Book | Secondary | 2006 | Full Record | |
| Perrin, Pat. The Underground Railroad: Life on the Road to Freedom. Perspectives on History Series. 2nd ed. Carlisle, MA: Discovery Enterprises, 1999. | Book | Secondary | 1999 | Full Record | |
| Peters, Pamela R. The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2001. | Book | Secondary | 2001 | Full Record | |
| Quinn, Angela M. The Underground Railroad and the Antislavery Movement in Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. Fort Wayne, IN: Arch Inc., 2001. | Book | Secondary | 2001 | Full Record | |
| Smallwood, Thomas. A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man). Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Richard Almonte. Toronto: Mercury Press, 2000. | Book | Primary | 2000 | Full Record | |
| Stadelhofen, Marcie Miller. The Freedom Side. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press, 1982. | Book | Secondary | 1982 | Full Record | |
| Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in New Jersey and New York. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006. | Book | Secondary | 2006 | Full Record | |
| Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. | Book | Secondary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. | Book | Secondary | 2001 | Full Record | |
| Tobin, Jacqueline, and Hettie Jones. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2007. | Book | Secondary | 2007 | Full Record | |
| Turner, Glennette Tilley. The Underground Railroad in Illinois. Glen Ellyn, IL: Newman Educational Pub., 2001. | Book | Secondary | 2001 | Full Record | |
| Watts, Ralph M. "History of the Underground Railroad in Mechanicsburg." Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly 43 (1934): 209-254. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1934 | Full Record | |
| Zabel, Darcy. The (Underground) Railroad in African American Literature. African American Literature and Culture. Vol. 6. New York: P. Lang, 2004. | Book | Secondary | 2004 | Full Record | |
| Brown, Maxine F. The Role of Free Blacks in Indiana's Underground Railroad: The Case of Floyd, Harrison, and Washington Counties. Indianapolis: Indiana Deptartment of Natural Resources, 2001. | Book | Secondary | 2001 | Full Record |