| The Underground Railroad: Levi Coffin receiving a company of fugitives in the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio | Frontispiece |
| | FACING PAGE |
| Isaac T. Hopper | 17 |
| The Runaway: a stereotype cut used on handbills advertising escaped slaves | 27 |
| Crossing-place on the Ohio River at Steubenville, Ohio | 47 |
| The Rankin House, Ripley, Ohio | 47 |
| Facsimile of an Underground Message | On page 57 |
| Barn of Seymour Finney, Detroit, Michigan | 65 |
| The Old First Church, Galesburg, Illinois | 65 |
| William Still | 75 |
| Levi Coffin | 87 |
| Frederick Douglass | 104 |
| Caves in Salem Township, Washington County, Ohio | 130 |
| House of Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Valley Falls, Rhode Island | 130 |
| The Detroit River at Detroit, Michigan | 147 |
| Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio | 147 |
| Ellen Craft as she escaped from Slavery | 163 |
| Samuel Harper and Wife | 163 |
| Dr. Alexander M. Ross | 180 |
| Harriet Tubman | 180 |
| Group of Refugee Settlers at Windsor, Ontario, C.W. | 190 |
| Theodore Parker | 205 |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson | 205 |
| Dr. Samuel G. Howe | 205 |
| Benjamin Drew | 205 |
| Church of the Fugitive Slaves, Boston, Massachusetts | 235 |
| Salmon P. Chase | 254 |
| Thomas Garrett | 254 |
| Rush R. Sloane | 282 |
| Thaddeus Stevens | 282 |
| J. R. Ware | 282 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 282 |
| Gerrit Smith | 290 |
| Joshua R. Giddings | 290 |
| Charles Sumner | 290 |
| Richard H. Dana | 290 |
| Bust of Rev. John Rankin | 307 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 321 |
| Captain John Brown | 338 |
| Facsimile of a Leaf from the Diary of Daniel Osborn | On pages 344, 345 |
| MAPS |
| Map of the Underground Railroad System | Facing page 113 |
| Map of Underground Lines in Southeastern Pennsylvania | " 113 |
| Map of Underground Lines in Morgan County, Ohio | On page 136 |
| Lewis Falley's Map of the Underground Routes of Indiana and Michigan | On page 138 |
| Map of an Underground Line through Livingston and La Salle Counties, Illinois | On page 139 |
| Map of Underground Lines through Greene, Warren and Clinton Counties, Ohio | On page 140 |
| APPENDICES |
| Appendix A: Constitutional Provisions and National Acts relative to Fugitive Slaves, 1787–1850 | 359−366 |
| Appendix B: List of Important Fugitive Slave Cases | 367−377 |
| Appendix C: Figures from the United States Census Reports relating to Fugitive Slaves | 378, 379 |
| Appendix D: Bibliography | 380−402 |
| Appendix E: Directory of the names of Underground Railroad Operators and Members of Vigilance Committees | 403−439 |
