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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

1. Blazing the Trail

2. Thorny Is the Pathway

3. Fugitives in Flight

4. The Captives of the Amistad

5. A House Divided

6. “This Pretended Law We Cannot Obey”

7. New Haven, Gateway from the Sea

8. West Connecticut Trunk Lines

9. East Connecticut Locals

10. Valley Line to Hartford

11. Middletown, a Way Station

12. Farmington, the Grand Central Station

13. The Road in Full Swing

Appendices

1. Narrative of Mr. Nehemiah Caulkins of Waterford, Connecticut

2. Underground Railroad Agents in Connecticut

3. Slaves and Free Negroes in Connecticut, 1639–1860

4. Antislavery Societies in Connecticut, 1837

5. Slaves in Connecticut, 1830

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ILLUSTRATIONS

Four Antislavery Leaders

Cinque. The portrait by Nathaniel Jocelyn

Four Underground Agents

Two Underground Stations

Principal Underground Routes in the Northeast

Underground Railroad Routes in Connecticut

The Reverend James W. C. Pennington

The home of Francis Gillette in Bloomfield