Record Data
Source citation
"Untitled," Boston (MA) Herald, October 31, 1856, p. 2: 2.
Newspaper: Publication
Boston Herald
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Zak Rosenberg, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
The underground railroad appears to be quite a flourishing institution. A report of the Albany Vigilance Committee (colored) states that between the 12th of September 1855, and the 15th of July 1856 - a period of ten months - two hundred and eighty-seven fugitive slaves passed through the city of Albany en route for Canada.