This book is a reprint in 1999 by Chautauqua Region Press, P.O. Box 156, Westfield, NY 14787 of the original book first published in 1879. It contains drawings, portraits, maps, newspaper advertisements for missing slaves, an acknowlegement from Frederick Douglas, etc. and is an excellent book, really imparting the flavor of those times because it was written back then, not "reinterpreted" for today's sensibilities.
(FROM BACK COVER) Fugitive slave Tom Hawkins' first sight of Lake Erie is beautifully imagined by U.G.R.R. agent Eber Pettit. Pettit operated a station at Versailles, Cattagaugus County, N.Y., on the banks of the Cattaraugus Creek, for nearly a quarter century. From there he funneled fugitives to Black Rock and the Niagara River for passage to Canada. Eber knew well the U.G.R.R. routes through Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and New York; and he was acquainted with U.G.R.R. procedures and personalities beyond. "Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad" are his collected reminiscences, commissioned by the editors of the Fredonia (N.Y.) Censor and published in the newspaper in 1868.
(FROM BACK COVER) Fugitive slave Tom Hawkins' first sight of Lake Erie is beautifully imagined by U.G.R.R. agent Eber Pettit. Pettit operated a station at Versailles, Cattagaugus County, N.Y., on the banks of the Cattaraugus Creek, for nearly a quarter century. From there he funneled fugitives to Black Rock and the Niagara River for passage to Canada. Eber knew well the U.G.R.R. routes through Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and New York; and he was acquainted with U.G.R.R. procedures and personalities beyond. "Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad" are his collected reminiscences, commissioned by the editors of the Fredonia (N.Y.) Censor and published in the newspaper in 1868.
