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From: Marilyn Demas <>
Subject: Re: [UNDERGROUND-RR] websites
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:32:38 -0800
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Thank you Judy, I will indeed check these out.
Appreciatively,
marilyn

Judy White wrote:

> We have added some new books to our African American site and you
> might want to check them out http://www.accessgenealogy.com/african/
>
> Narrative of Lundsford Lane
> The Fugitive Blacksmith
> History of Liberia
> History of Slave Narratives
> Instructions and general information on how the narratives were to be
> compiled
> Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point 1/10/2006
> History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War
> Great Riots of New York 1712-1873
> Clotelle or The Colored Heroine
> A novel, I leave it to the reader to determine if fact or fiction
> A Century of Negro Migration
> Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18, The Fugitive Slave Law, and its Victims
>
> Judy
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Thielen" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:17 PM
> Subject: [UNDERGROUND-RR] websites
>
>
>> Hi Marilyn, it's nice to meet someone else who is researching family
>> history and the Underground RR also.
>> The book I'm reading is called, "John Brown Abolitionist" by David S.
>> Reynolds. I've read others before, but this one is a good read because
>> of the level of detal, and it is a "cultural history". Edwin &
>> Barclay Coppock were two young Quaker men on this raid, who were
>> relative of my Coppock
>> ancesters of that time period, all descended from John Coppock and
>> Margaret Coulson (PA>MD).
>>
>> I have been learning a lot about the history of the anti-slavery
>> movement during the 19th century. Have you seen this website?
>> http://www.ohiohistory.org/undergroundrr/
>>
>> Here are a couple of other interesting websites I've found:
>> http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/ugrr/exuggr1.htm
>>
>> http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm
>>
>> talk to you later,
>> Kelly
>>
>>
>> Kelly,
>> What's the name of the new John Brown Book?
>>
>> I am also researching a family, two families in fact, who went from Va.
>> to Ohio. I am particularly interested in a Nancy Ross as she was born a
>> "Free Black "
>> in Maryland somewhere between 1829 and 1832. This is information Nancy
>> provided on censi as her age seems to fluctuate on the censi as well.
>> Somehow Nancy became enslaved. I am not exactly sure when she wound up
>> with the family of Wm. D. Gooch, but the caucasian Gooch family followed
>> the trek that you speak of from Ohio to Mo At the very least Nancy met
>> the slave of Wm. D. Gooch, named Peter Gooch, in Cooper Co., Mo.
>> Nancy's son [and we aren't sure who the biological father is because
>> Nancy didn't marry peter until 1858 in Ca.] was sold. to a neighbor of
>> Wm. Gooch, named Andrew Monroe. Nancy's son received the master's
>> name. The Munro, Monroe, family seems to have followed the same trek,
>> again from Va. to Ohio and then to Mo.
>>
>> So, I don't know if this trip from Va. to Ohio, to Mo. was some kind of
>> structured trip or what the significance is. I am as anxious as Kelly
>> for some guidance.
>> Appreciatively,
>> marilyn
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hello, I am researching my Quaker roots, Coppock/Coate line, and
>>> they went from NJ, MD, and PA (colonial times) to Bush River, SC, to
>>> Miami county, OH.
>>> I am very interested in the Underground RR, and have been
>>> researching this in Ohio particularly during the 1800's.
>>> I am currently reading a new book about John Brown, which is
>>> fascinating.
>>> I was hoping to learn here, and to get some tips/informatin.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kelly
>>
>>
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