The Underground Railroad in Michigan

<p> Though living far north of the Mason-Dixon line many mid-nineteenth-century citizens of Michigan rose up to protest the moral offense of slavery; they published an abolitionist newspaper and founded an anti-slavery society as well as a campaign for emancipation. By the 1840s a prominent abolitionist from Illinois had crossed the state line to Michigan establishing new stations on the Underground Railroad.</p><p> This book is the first comprehensive exploration of abolitionism and the network of escape from slavery in the state. First-person accounts are interwoven with an expansive historical overview of national events to offer a fresh examination of Michigan's critical role in the movement to end American slavery.</p>