Blanche B. Coggan Papers
MSS173
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Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
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Detroit, Michigan, 48201
313-494-5800
Blanche B. Coggan Papers MSS173
Table of Contents
Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3
Biographical History......................................................................................................................................4
Scope and Content Note................................................................................................................................4
Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................6
Physical Characteristics Note........................................................................................................................ 8
Detailed Table of Contents............................................................................................................................8
Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 9
Underground Railroad in Michigan Grand Terminus Drafts, Work Papers, Research Files, and
Notes.........................................................................................................................................................9
The Underground Railroad Television and Video Project....................................................................32
Manuscripts, Collected Works, and Publications..................................................................................39
Coggan Family Genealogy.................................................................................................................... 51
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Summary Information
Repository
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Title
Blanche B. Coggan Papers
Date
circa 1956 - 2000
Extent
9.75 Cubic feet 31 Archives Boxes, 2 Oversize Boxes
Language
English
Abstract
The Blanche B. Coggan Papers consists of 33 boxes of materials primarily
relating to the history of the Underground Railroad in Michigan. The
majority of the materials centers around the seven primary routes as
defined by Coggan that crossed the State of Michigan during the 1800s,
which Coggan researched between 1956-1980. The bulk of the research
is found in both published and drafted manuscripts that culminated in
a television series program that featured eight 30-minute segments on
the Underground Railroad in Michigan, produced in 1980. Additional
materials include a multitude of primary and secondary research sources
that informed the research, Coggan family genealogy, and various
non-manuscript materials, including—photographs, slides, negatives,
photograph albums, posters, maps, video, film strips, and ephemera
objects. The overall organization of the collection is a four-series
arrangement with multiple subseries and item folder descriptions.
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Biographical History
Blanche Elizabeth Braun Brown Coggan, author, poet, playwright, teacher, and historian, was born on
April 22, 1895 in Colorado. At the age of seven, her family moved to Michigan, and at the age of 17 she
became a teacher and soon after married Bernard Coggan. After raising three children, she returned to
school and majored in music, psychology, and education while earning her M.A. from Michigan State
University. She began a scholarly career conducting historical research on the Marble Community in
Meridian Township, which included a close study of her own home located on Hagadorn Road in East
Lansing, MI. While active in local church and community events, she wrote extensively on topics ranging
from religious and music education for both youth and senior citizens to fictional works. These included
her first book, entitled When God Quit: A Story of the Days After the War in 1955 and a short historical
piece on the history of Lansing called, Out of the Past: A Pageant of the Growth of a Historical
Community in 1956. While she wrote and published about her many interests, her life’s work for 21 years
was dedicated to researching the Underground Railroad in Michigan. She resided in Michigan for over 50
years and was recognized by the Michigan Legislature in April of 1957 as the most extensive and prolific
researcher of the Underground Railroad in Michigan.
Described by her son Forrest as “forever a student,” she continued to research and write until the end of
her life. A champion of social activism, Coggan continued to serve her community, becoming a founding
member of the Research Association for Michigan Negro History. In April of 1975, she was awarded with
the Senate of Michigan Certificate in recognition of her work on the UGRR in Michigan. That same year,
she returned to Colorado, her home state, and continued her work by composing a two-volume romance
series based on the diaries of her mother, Emma Brown, and her life in Ohio, Kansas and Michigan,
called Soul Turner: A Historical Story Based on the Dairy of a Pioneer Bride. Coggan passed away
on August 18, 1989 in Littleton, Colorado. She was laid to rest in Lansing, Michigan at the Deepdale
Cemetery near where she once worshipped and served her local church community.
Scope and Content Note
Novice historian and researcher Blanche B. Coggan had a strong conviction that blacks and whites
not only worked side by side even in times of racial inequality, but also were responsible for working
together to topple the institution of slavery. She set out to discover these forgotten heroes of Michigan.
Looking at the intersecting ways that freedom-seekers traveled to get to Canada through Michigan,
Coggan defined seven of these ways as main routes taken in Michigan. Tracing her seven routes, she
unearthed the stories of an estimated 250 safe stations and identified over 3,000 operators who risked their
lives, reputations, and livelihood for the betterment of others. As a peninsula state neighboring Canada,
Michigan’s geography served as a natural corridor, or “Grand Terminus,” toward freedom. For Coggan,
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the territory of Michigan served as an ideal historical example where blacks and whites cooperated to
promote freedom and work toward the eradication of slavery.
Coggan set out to collect anecdotal stories from descendents of former operators while writing to
vast numbers of libraries, museums, historical societies, experts, and colleagues requesting additional
information. In 1960, only by earning the confidence of collaborating families in Pontiac was Coggan
able to reveal proof of the existence of Michigan Anti-Slavery Society and its chronicled minutes
(Coggan noted these as the ‘so-called Black Books’) and its organizing documents from meetings and
other activities, in which had been recorded the names of operators. Coggan rounded out her research
by providing abundant evidence on the role of Native Americans in both the national and international
story of slavery. Some of the more tangible and personal pieces of her collection are not only the lists of
the names of those involved in the Underground Railroad, but also their photographs and the homes that
served as stations, some of which are still standing today. Coggan confirms that the role of Michigan is
front and center as, indeed, the “Grand Terminus” in this epic tale of slavery in America.
In the end, Coggan compiled both primary and secondary sources, published and unpublished materials.
Additionally, she took original photographs of many of these sites in person to support her research for
publications, TV and radio shows, and lecture series. In the 1980s, Teatro Internacional, a nonprofit
educational arts organization, teamed up with Grand Rapids Public Schools to produce an eight-part video
series featuring Mary Edmond interviewing Coggan on the seven Underground Railroad Routes she had
defined and enumerated in Michigan.
The collection is divided in four primary series groups and further divided into multiple subseries
as needed. The series are THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MICHIGAN GRAND TERMINUS
DRAFTS, WORK PAPERS, RESEARCH FILES AND NOTES; THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
TELEVISION/VIDEO PROJECT; MANUSCRIPTS, COLLECTED WORKS, AND PUBLICATIONS;
and the COGGAN FAMILY GENEALOGY. While the collection reflects many different types of audiovisual media and formats, all materials, with one exception, were kept within the collection and not
separated out. Regardless of format or media, nearly all materials in some way related to or informed
both the manuscripts or the Video Series research on the Underground Railroad in Michigan, and for this
primary reason, the integrity of the collection was maintained. On a related note, while oversized maps
and audio-visual materials are in some cases boxed separately or placed in a different series, each series
grouping contains newspaper clippings, maps, and photographs. Again, related materials have been kept
together to honor the current order as much as possible, no matter what the medium.
The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MICHIGAN GRAND TERMINUS DRAFTS, WORK PAPERS,
RESEARCH FILES AND NOTES series includes extensive copies of drafts and work papers of chapters
1-8 for Coggan’s multi-volume project on the Underground Railroad in Michigan. Additionally, these
drafts are also accompanied by both the primary and secondary sources that Coggan used to compose
these writings (maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings also round out the research). This series
is dissected into five additional subseries: Correspondence 1956-2000; Native Americans in North
America; Slavery in the United States and in the World; The Underground Railroad in Michigan Routes
1-7; and The UGRR in Other States and Regions. These subseries were chosen for not only the quantity
of materials, but also to create research accessibility with common historical themes relating to the
history of the United States and that of Slavery as an overarching topic. On a finer note, by allowing
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correspondences to remain with their respective material in this series, Coggan’s research contacts and
methods could be more transparently revealed.
The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TELEVISION/VIDEO PROJECT series has four break-out
subseries with further subseries divisions. Since the thrust of this collection culminates in a television
series, the bulk of the multiple media formats are integrated into this series. The subseries are
Administrative Papers and Correspondence; Audio-Visual Materials; Research Materials and Notes,
Work Papers, Production Summaries, and the History of the Project; and Visual Materials.
The MANUSCRIPTS, COLLECTED WORKS, AND PUBLICATIONS series was produced by both
Coggan and others. This series is composed of various publications that primarily informed Coggan’s
research in some direct or cursory manner on the Underground Railroad in Michigan. The range of
materials is vast, including biographies, fiction, nonfiction, reference guides, pamphlets, journals,
magazines, and historical studies of African Americans, religion, and Michigan. With the exception of
the pamphlets and journals, the rest of the publications not generated by Coggan were integrated into the
Wright Museum Research Library.
The COGGAN FAMILY GENEALOGY series consists of many family photos, family trees,
correspondences with family members, newspaper clippings, and research of specific family members
including baptismal records of Coggan’s children. Due to the personal nature of this series, Coggan’s
family materials were kept intact to provide distinctive information for potential future genealogical and
or biographical research.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History 4 August 2010
Revision Description
Continuing to add names and subjects as access points. MMcK 6/21/2011
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
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• Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society.
• Michigan Anti-Slavery Society.
Geographic Name(s)
• Michigan
• Wayne County (Mich.)
Occupation(s)
• Slaves.
Personal Name(s)
• Black Hawk, (Also Makataimeshekiakiak (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia kiak)), 1767-1838, Sauk Chief -History
• Coggan, Blanche B. -- Archives
• Four Bears, (Also known as Mato-Tope), d. 1837, Mandan chief -- History
• Little Turtle, (Also called Michikinikwa), 1752?-1812, Chief & War Leader of Miami Tribe -History
• Pontiac, d. 1769, Ottawa Chief -- History
• Randolph, John, 1773-1833, Statesman (Roanoke, Virginia) & Orator -- Archives
• Romney, George, Governor, (George Wilcken), 1907-1995, Governor of Michigan (1963-1969);
Cabinet Secretary (Secretary of Housing & Urban Development) -- Correspondence
• Tecumseh, (Also Tecumthe, Tikamthe, or Ticumtha), 1768-1813, Shawnee Chief -- History
• Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883 -- Correspondence
• Wright, Charles H., 1918-2002 -- Correspondence
Subject(s)
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Abolitionist
American Revolution
Chippewa Tribe
Fugitive slaves.
Miami Tribe
Native Americans
Ottawa Tribe
Slavery.
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• Underground Railroad.
Physical Characteristics Note
Some of the media materials are inaccessible because of the lack of playback equipment.
Detailed Table of Contents
MSS 173: Blanche B. Coggan Papers
Underground Railroad in Michigan Grand Terminus Drafts, Work Papers, Research Files, and Notes
includes: Correspondence -- Native Americans in North America -- Slavery in the United States and
the World -- Underground Railroad in Other States and Regions -- The Underground Railroad in
Michigan; The Underground Railroad Television and Video Project includes: Administrative Papers and
Correspondence -- Audio-Visual Materials -- Research Materials and Notes, Work Papers, Production -Visual Materials; Manuscripts, Collected Works, and Publications includes: Audio-Visual Materials -Blanche B. Coggan -- Other Works; Coggan Family Genealogy
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Underground Railroad in Michigan Grand Terminus Drafts, Work Papers, Resea...
Collection Inventory
Underground Railroad in Michigan Grand Terminus Drafts, Work Papers, Research Files, and
Notes undated
Correspondence 1956-2000
Letter from a Seabee Stationed at Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1945 by
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Folder
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Harold C. Allison from Baldwin, MI, October 9, 1956
Research Queries for Route 6-Livingston, Oakland, and Shiawassee
Counties 1957-1965
Miscellaneous Research Queries 1957-1970
Research Queries for Concord, Bellevue, Marshall (Crosswhite
Case) 1958-1961
Who am I? Who is Mr. Putman? Who is the American Negro? by Blanche
B. Coggan February 17, 1959
1959
Research Queries for Albion, St. Joseph County, Coldwater, Hillsdale,
Detroit, MI with Photographs undated
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Correspondence
1960
Fred Hart Williams 1960
1961
Research Queries-Octagon Houses (Stations) 1961-1969
1962
Letter About Sojourner Truth and the Soldiers and Sailors Monument,
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August 1, 1962
1963
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1966
Dr. Charles Wright Letter, January 11, 1966
1967
Gov. George Romney Letters, March 1968
1968
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Native Americans in North America
1969
Letter to Continental Committee by (Mrs.) Blanche Coggan 1972
1972-1973
1974
Letter about Publication by WSU on Michigan's UGRR by Blanche
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Coggan, August 15, 1975
Letters from Forrest Coggan 1980-2000
1982
1983
Native Americans in North America undated
Great Native Americans of Midwest U.S.A.: A Year's Research & Study
by Coggan & Coggan 1974
Native Americans of North America undated
Native Americans in North America-Michigan Boundaries and
Allegiances, with Maps 1682-1836
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Native Americans in North America
The Ottawas Gain Control in Michigan; and Overthrow of the French by
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the English in America, with Map undated
The Miracle of Dialogue on Five Great Native Americans--Pontiac, Little
Turtle, Tecumseh, Four Bears, and Blackhawk, located in Michigan
Territory 1805-1836
Ottawa and Chippewa Tribes in Michigan undated
Underground Ancestry of Chief Blackbird (Mack-a-de-pe-nessy) undated
American Red-Blood Independence [Chief Pontiac] by Blanche
Coggan 1976
Pontiac, "The Most Famous of All Indians" undated
Possible Relatives of Chief Pontiac undated
Native Americans in Northwest Territory- Treaties undated
Michigan Native American Monuments and Markers undated
Natives of the New World, North America undated
French and British Struggle for Indian Lands in North American
Colonies undated
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Native Americans in North America
Miami Tribe's Chief Little Turtle and Virginia's Orator and Statesman,
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John Randolph undated
Billy Wells--White Slave of Chief Little Turtle undated
Struggle of Indians to Retain Homeland in Northwest Territories undated
United States Treaties with Native Americans Research and Discussion by
Blanche Coggan 1974
Chief Tecumseh Research and Discussion; and Cocoosh (Native and
African American) undated
Native American Treaties 1778-1819
Native American Treaties 1820-1864
Newspaper Clippings of Native Americans undated
Historical Research of Native Americans in North America--Chippewa and
Ottawa Tribes and Treaties undated
The Lewis and Clark Expedition with Sacajewea and York (African
American Explorer) 1803-1806
Native American Chiefs (drawings and photographs), Newspaper
Clippings, and Narratives undated
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Slavery in the United States and the World
Yardstick of Time in Central America undated
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Slavery in the United States and the World undated
The Bandung Conference on the Island of Java 1955
Man's Emergence from Slavery Through the Underground Railroad by
Braun Coggan undated
Early Colonization in the World, Primarily in North America undated
Africans in Colonial America undated
Birth of the Enslavement Idea, Its Spread Over the World and the Dawn of
Universal Freedom in United Nations undated
England Leading World Power through Colorblind Slavery undated
Adventures in Understanding that Slavery was Colorblind undated
Future--Slavery in the World Today undated
Confusion of Freedom in Slavery undated
Blood Brothers Search for Freedom Land undated
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Slavery in the United States and the World
Purchase of the Louisiana from France in 1803: Doubled the Free Negro
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Population in the U.S. undated
Slavery in the U.S., An Historical Overview 1772-1812
Tribute to Four Far-Visioned Leaders Who Attempted to Lift the
Americans out of an Age-Old Slave Status--Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de
Lafayette, John Randolph, and Simon Bolivar undated
The Slave Trade After 1808
Slavery in the United States Timeline 1763-1863
Historical Perspectives on Slavery undated
Dark Americans in the United States Census 1850
Slavery in the New World Relating to the Maritime and Industrial Boom
and the Church undated
Early Church History undated
Principal Shipping Points of Slaves from Africa and Their Relocation in
the New World undated
Slavery and the Revolutionary War undated
Growth of Slavery--Steps to the Civil War 1619-1859
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Slavery in the United States and the World
Michigan Veterans, Including the 102nd U.S.Colored Troops (900 Man
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Unit) undated
First Thirteen States, Politics of Slavery undated
Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette and Slavery During
Revolutionary Times undated
The Amistad 1839
History of the Assassination of President Lincoln and John Wilkes
Booth undated
The Slave Ship, Rebecca undated
Organized Movements Against Slavery undated
Abolitionists undated
William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Movement undated
Slavery and the Underground Railroad by Blanche Coggan undated
The Story Behind the Song, Amazing Grace: John Newton, Reformed
Slave Trader undated
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Underground Railroad in Other States and Regions
Brief History of Negro Spirituals 1525-1676 by Jerene G. Macklin, June
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1963
Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings undated
Miscellaneous Copies of Research Booklets, Pamphlets and
Notes undated
Underground Railroad in Other States and Regions undated
The Underground Railroad Through the Middle Atlantic Free
States undated
Flight Routes from Southern States, Fugitive States and the Fugitive Slave
Act, and Free African Americans undated
History of Oberlin College, Ohio undated
The Underground Railroad, Ohio Routes 1-5 undated
The Underground Railroad, Indiana and the N.W. Territory undated
The Underground Railroad, Eastern Route, Indiana--County Routes and
Operators undated
The Underground Railroad, the Eastern Route, Indiana--Filters to MI
Routes 1-4 undated
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The Underground Railroad in Michigan
The Underground Railroad in Eastern and Southern States to Canada or
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Bahamas undated
The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania undated
The Underground Railroad from Mississippi to New England, Operators,
and Freed Slaves undated
The Underground Railroad Going South; U.S. Slavery Engulfs Spanish
Florida undated
The Underground Railroad Development of Kansas to Iowa Stations,
1854 undated
The Underground Railroad in Michigan undated
Route 1 Detroit River undated
Original Manuscript of Route 1, and Abolitionists Haviland and Zachariah
Chandler undated
Detroit River Stations Maps undated
Q & A on Detroit River Route undated
Wayne County undated
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Route 2 Toledo to Adrian
Monroe, Huron, Sanilac, St. Clair, Macomb County, and Wayne County--
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Grosse Ile--Detroit--Canada undated
Monroe County with Map undated
Detroit, Grosse Ile, Gibraltar, Brownstown, Ohio to Monroe--William
Lambert (African American) and John Biddle undated
Wayne County--Grosse Ile, Brownstown, Gibraltar, Detroit--Wilson Beard
Home (Station) , Livonia, Plymouth and Dearbornville--Joseph Fowler and
the Detroit Riot 1833-1865
Gibraltar to Detroit and Detroit to Canada undated
Connections to Canada--Sandwich, Ontario, and Baby Mansion undated
Operators--Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, Lizette Denison, Seymore
Finney, George De Baptiste, and William Lambert undated
Macomb County--Utica-Springfield Farm and Peter Lerich (Abolitionist)
with Photographs undated
Macomb County Road Map 1959
St. Clair County undated
Route 2 Toledo to Adrian undated
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Route 2 Toledo to Adrian
Original Manuscript of Route 2, Lenawee County and the Haviland
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Family undated
Toledo, OH, Adrian, MI, and Lenawee County with Maps undated
Illinois Routes Leading to Michigan Route 2--Abraham Lincoln, Alton,
IL undated
Indiana--Ohio--Michigan Route 2--Levi Coffin and Other
Operators undated
Three main Underground routes from both North and South converged at
Levi Coffin's in Newport (Fountain City), IN undated
Lenawee County Maps--Showing UGRR Stations from Ohio to
Michigan undated
John Fairchild's Route from Mobile, Alabama to Windsor, Ontario and
Joel Carpenter (operator) undated
Lenawee County--Stations from Routes 4 and 6 Leading to Route 2 and
Haviland Schools undated
Lenawee County--UGRR Stations undated
UGRR Operators--Wright Maudlin, Samuel Smith, Sala Smith,
Otis Smith, Friends Church of Adrian and Samuel Brown from
Tecumseh undated
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Route 2 Toledo to Adrian
Woodstock, MI--Prior Foster--Woodstock Manual Labor Institute with
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Photograph undated
Manuscript in Honor of Prior Foster Educational Award by Blanche and
Forrest Coggan, Georgia and John Kaechele, Sept. 1969
Lenawee County--Anti-Slavery Societies in Michigan--Elizabeth Margaret
Chandler undated
Michigan Anti-Slavery Society's Convention in Adrian, MI by Blanche
Coggan 10-16-1852
Hillsdale County--Sites of Safe Houses and Lenawee County--Pioneer
Families and the Haviland Family undated
Lenawee County--Schools for Children--Raisin Institute, Raisin
Valley Seminary, Emlin Institute, and Woodstock Manual Labor
Institute undated
Miscellaneous Notes Route 2 undated
Adrian, MI--Laura Haviland--UGRR Operator and Founder of the Raisin
Institute undated
Correspondence with Smith and Haviland Descendents with Diagram of
Smith Home and Additional Notes undated
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Route 3 Sauk Trail
Route 3 Sauk Trail undated
Sauk Indian Transportation Routes in Michigan--Chief
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Blackhawk undated
Indiana Connections to Sauk Trail undated
Chicago-Detroit Road Along the Sauk and Potawatomie Trails undated
St. Joseph County with Maps undated
Branch County with Maps undated
Branch County--Union City undated
Hillsdale County Map 1960
Hillsdale County--Western Hillsdale County Routes and Stations undated
Washtenaw and Ypsilanti Counties undated
UGRR Operators of Route 3 undated
UGRR Miscellaneous Notes undated
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Route 4 Old Territorial Road
Original Manuscript of Route 3, Hillsdale and Washtenaw Counties and
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Ypsilanti with Photographs undated
Original Manuscript of Route 3 with Photographs undated
Chicago to Detroit Road Along the Old Sauk Trail to Washtenaw County
with Maps undated
Historical Outline for Route 3 by Forrest Coggan undated
Route 4 Old Territorial Road undated
Original Manuscript of Route 4, St. Joseph, MI, Washtenaw and Cass
Counties with Maps and Photographs undated
Original Manuscript Excerpt of Route 4, Kalamazoo County with
Map undated
Calhoun County, Michigan with Maps undated
Calhoun County, Michigan History undated
Calhoun and Marshall Counties, Michigan--Crosswhite Case undated
Battle Creek, Michigan--Erastus Hussey undated
Battle Creek, Michigan- Sojourner Truth with Photographs undated
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Route 4 Old Territorial Road
Jackson County, Michigan--Concord Township undated
Jackson County, Michigan History with Maps and Photographs undated
Jackson County, Michigan--Northern Half undated
Jackson County, Michigan--Republican Party and Zachariah
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Chandler undated
Washtenaw County, Michigan History with Maps undated
Washtenaw County, Michigan-Western Half-Old Territorial Road (West to
East) undated
Washtenaw County, Michigan-Eastern Half-Ann Arbor undated
Indiana Connections to Route 4 with Map undated
Q & A UGRR Route 4 undated
Territorial Road Through Ann Arbor, Jackson, Calhoun, and Kalamazoo
with Map undated
Territorial Road and Sauk Trail--Crossover of Routes 3 and 4 undated
Cass County--List of UGRR Operators including African American
Workers with Maps undated
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Route 5 Grand River Trail
Cass County Operators and Families undated
Cass County undated
Kalamazoo County Maps undated
Kalamazoo County Operators and Stations undated
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Eaton County, Michigan History with Maps undated
Grand Rapids and Kent Counties, Michigan undated
Gratiot and Montcalm Counties, Michigan with Maps undated
Ionia County, Michigan History with Maps undated
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Ingham County, Michigan--Trinity A.M.E. Church History 1866-1867
Ingham County, Michigan--The Lynching of John Taylor, August, 1966
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Oakland County--Pontiac with Photographs undated
Genesee County--Village of Fenton Zoning Map, November 18,
1946 undated
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Bay County undated
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Charlevoix County--Zachariah and Rebecca Nevitt Morgan Flight from
Slavery undated
Cheboygan County Maps undated
Cheboygan County--"Freedom of the Straits" by Forrest Coggan 1980
Mackinac County--French, English, and Native Americans in Northwest
Territory and Jean Baptiste undated
Mackinaw County--Mackinaw Island and John Bonga (Black
Frenchman) undated
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March 7, 1980
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Michigan in Northwest Territory, Mason-Dixon Line, and the War of
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Beginning of the UGRR Leading to Michigan-Ohio Routes, ToledoWestern Reserve undated
The Underground Railroad Beginning in Ohio Leading to Michigan-Oberlin, OH with Photographs undated
Routes from Ohio to Detroit River Region and Canada--Josiah Henson and
Eliza Harris Escape, and Patriot War, 1837 undated
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Lewis Cass - Michigan Territorial Governor (1813-1831), Pro-Slavery
Candidate for U.S. President 1813-1848
Map of Michigan Detailing the Seven Routes (copy of large laminated
full-size map) undated
Michigan Maps Illustrating Routes, Stations, River Systems, and Michigan
Territory undated
Michigan Road Maps 1966-1967
Collection of Maps and Research Tracing the Expansion of Slavery to the
UGRR in Michigan undated
Maps of Michigan, Wisconsin, and the N.W. Territory undated
Michigan Territory Maps 1805-1830
PBS Television [MSU E. Lansing] WKAR Interview Transcript and Notes
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The Underground Railroad Television and Video Project
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Retracing Steps to Freedom, Detroit Free Press, June 29, 1984 and The Underground
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Railroad: Freedom Through Michigan, Grand Rapids Press, Feb. 14, 1982
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Administrative Papers and Correspondence undated
History of the UGRR Television Series by Forrest Coggan Feb. 11, 1980
UGRR in Michigan Negotiation and Agreement Contract 1979
UGRR in Michigan Teatro Internacional Budget Report, November, 1979
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UGRR in Michigan Teatro Internacional Summary, May 26, 1980
Correspondence 1980
Correspondence 1981
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UGRR in Michigan TV Series Outlines with Notes undated
UGRR in Michigan TV Series Overview and Routes 1-7 Maps,
Photographs, and Graphics undated
UGRR in Michigan TV Series Photographs and Photographs of
Blanche Coggan and Mary Edmond Videotaping undated
Preview Outline of Slavery in the United States
1619-1865 1619-1865
Legal Issues on Race: White, Black, Indian Relative to Voting
Rights Including 1787 Ordinance and Overview undated
Slavery in the U.S. and a Letter on Race by Blanche Coggan,
Feb.17, 1959 undated
Overview on Race undated
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, Michigan Trader and Founder of
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A Chronology of Slavery to Freedom (Civil War) undated
Free Blacks in U.S., Present Day Slavery in Africa, and MI
Christian Advocate Research undated
Slavery Through Civil Rights-Newspaper Clippings undated
The Hastings Banner Centennial Edition 1856-Newspaper
Clippings 1856
Miscellaneous Research Notes undated
TV Series Overview Summary of Introduction--Program
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Biographical Sketch of Blanche B. Coggan Introducing the TV
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Ingham and Livingston County Maps 1847-1874
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Collage of Certificates of Appreciation, Outstanding Human Being Award, and
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Thank You Poster from the TV Production Crew, May 27, 1980
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The Black Books: Original Constitution and By-Laws of the Anti-Slavery Movement in
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Michigan 1966
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Black Books: Original Records of Anti-Slavery Society of Michigan 1852-1857
Brotherhood of Thieves: Historical Narrative of Zachariah Chandler Mackinac Island by
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Blanche Coggan and Louise M. Braxton Interview undated
Tape Recording of Negro History Feb 11-17, 1968 and WKAR (MSU) Lansing, MI
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Blanche E. Coggan and Robert Downey
Visit to Piney Woods, Mississippi with Son, Forrest, niece, Nelle Bradshaw-Piazza, and
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an appearance by Laurence Jones (Prior Foster's grandson) undated
Medals
These medals were found with the Visit to Piney Woods Film Strip-- Booker T.
Washington Monument from Tuskegee, Alabama Medal and British and Foreign AntiSlavery Society with Chain
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Meredith Publishing Company Correspondences 1969
Brothers in Slavery and the Underground Railroad, Three
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Afro-American Heritage Before the United States of America Began with
an Inventory List undated
Afro-American Heritage Before the United States Began--Research for
Publication with Inventory List undated
The Underground Railroad and Black-White Cooperation undated
"Saga of America is Told in the History of Slavery" by Blanche B. Coggan
in The Michigan Chronicle. Feb. 9, 1963
Miscellaneous undated
When God Quit: A Story of the Days After the Bomb. New York:
Greenwich Book Pub, 1955. 1956
The Underground Railroad....and Black-White Cooperation--Original
Manuscript with Inventory List undated
The Underground Railroad....and Black-White Cooperation Draft undated
[Lansing Television Station] WMSB and [Michigan State University
Radio] WKAR Program Outlines and Lecture Series Notes 1959-1968
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"Aunt Sally or A Family Life" --United States 1857
"Aunt Sally," written by her son, Rev. Isaac Williams; and Addendum to
"Aunt Sally" [by] Lewis Cass Biggs undated
The Lafayette Methodist Church, Detroit, MI Where Rev. Isaac Williams
was Pastor 1852-1854
Prior Foster: First Afro-American to Found and Incorporate an Educational
Institution in the United States undated
Woodstock Institute Historical Marker Documentation in Lenawee
County, MI undated
Harriet Ross Tubman: The Moses of Her People undated
Pioneer Afro-American Educator: Prior Foster (5 copies) undated
The History of Woodstock Manual Labor Institute Founded by Prior Foster
at Woodstock, MI 1846
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Statement in Regard to the Woodstock Manual Labor Institute 1854
Bill of Sale of Land for the Woodstock Manual Labor Institute undated
Location of Woodstock Manual Labor Institute in Lenawee County,
MI 1939
Laurence Jones (grandson of Prior Foster) Correspondences 1948-1970
The Pine Torch from Piney Woods, Jan-Feb 1964 and Photographs
Comparing Woodstock Institute 1866-1966
Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods, Mississippi undated
The History of Marshall, MI by Harold C. Brooks 1950
Research Association for Michigan Negro History, By-Laws, Minutes,
etc... undated
Research Association for Negro History Financial Statement by John
Kaechele 1970
Miscellaneous undated
History of Marble Township, East Lansing, MI 1956
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Marble: Modern Neighborhood with a Past and Dedication of Historical
Marker 1966-1967
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Chronology by Shirley Graham 1953
The Undergound Railroad and Black-White Cooperation for Michigan
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Challenge Publication, June 1968
The Underground Railroad in Michigan by Blanche Coggan in Negro
History Bulletin 1964
Negro History Bulletin Volume XXVII, No. 5, February, 1964
Smith-Haviland Family Genealogy Compiled by Blanche and Forrest
Coggan 1980
Original Manuscript on Slavery by Blanche Coggan with Inventory
List undated
Operations on the Underground Railroad in Michigan by Routes and
Counties Drafts undated
Secondary Resources and Research Notes on Famous African
Americans undated
Dark Men and Women of Mark Biographies A-Z undated
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Correspondences between Blanche Coggan and Eerdmann Publishing Co.
Regarding the Black Books undated
Transcription of the Original Handwritten Minutes of Michigan AntiSlavery Society, the 'Black Books,' with Inventory List 1852-1857
Copies of Original Black Books --Secretary Account of Pledges and
Donations and Meeting Minutes 1852-1855
Transcript of the Black Books on Michigan Seceding from the Union and
Notes on Members undated
Record of the So Called Black Abolitionists of Michigan Anti-Slavery
Society with Inventory List undated
Research Notes Regarding Michigan Anti-Slavery Society with Transcript
of the Constitution 1853
The History of the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society as Recorded in the
'Black Books' with Member List undated
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Other Works
'Black Books' ' List of Reorganized Anti-Slavery Society Workers in
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The UGRR in Michigan Appreciation and Table of Contents, July 10,
1980
The UGRR in Michigan Bibliography 1980
Up From Slavery by the Underground Railroad to and through MichIgan
Bibliography 1968
The Underground Railroad in Michigan Bibliography 1960
The Underground Railroad in Michigan Bibliography 1970
Resource Lists undated
The Soul Tuner Volumes 1 and 2 by Blanche B. Coggan 1961-1986
Other Works undated and 1831-1987
1890 OAS 1948 1890-1948
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Other Works
A Short History of Okemos, October 1956 1956
The Buffalo Soldier 1970
Black Pioneers: A History of a Pioneer Family in Colorado Springs 1978
Chief Joseph's People and Their War 1964
Congregationalism, Slavery and the Civil War 1966
The Crisis, March 1967
The Dutch Churches in Michigan During the Civil War 1965
Early Days in Dexter 1941
The Fifth Report of the American Home Missionary Society, May 11, 1831
Forgotten Communities of Central Michigan, May 1963
From Bull Run to Appomattox: Michigan's Role in the Civil War, Wayne
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Grand Valley Living, Feb-March 1966
Historic County of Kent Michigan Tour, July 4, 1975
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History of Logansport and Cass County 1947
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa of Michigan 1887
Impact of the Civil War on the Presbyterian Church in Michigan 1965
Introduction to the Eclectic Reader: A Selection of Familar Lessons
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John Brown's Raid 1961
John Henry Kagi and the Log Cabin Home, August 1. 1942
Kiwanis Club of Lansing-Everett, Lansing, MI undated
The Mann House in Historic Concord, Winter 1969
The Methodist Episcopal Church in Michigan During the Civil War 1965
Michigan Challenge, June 1969
Michigan: A Chronological Outline of Our State's History 1970
Michigan Catholicism in the Era of the Civil War 1965
Michigan County Histories: A Bibliography 1970
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Other Works
Michigan History 1969-1970
Michigan History 1972
Michigan and the Old Northwest 1945
Minutes of the Synod of Michigan at Their Meeting in Ann Arbor,
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National Geographic Vol. 166, No.1, July 1964
The Navajo Treaty 1968
Negro Digest, November 1962
The Negro History Bulletin, October, 1962 and February, 1963
Negroes in Michigan During the Civil War 1966
Negroes in Michigan History 1970
The Negro in Southwestern Michigan 1967
Negro Yearbook an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro 1921-1922
On the Michigan Stage 1970
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Other Works
Pike's Peak Pioneers 1987
Plymouth History 1930-1931
Proceedings of the General Congregational Convention, Albany, N.Y.
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The Reader's Digest: The Little Professor of Piney Woods, May 1956
State of Michigan Journal No. 68 House of Representatives--House Bill
#3088-Ethnic Groups in Public Textbooks 1966
Twice Told Tales of Michigan and Her Soldiers in the Civil War 1966
Triennial Catalogue of Oberlin College 1863
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No 3, December, 1960
The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLIV, No.2, April, 1961
The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLVI, No.3, July, 1961
The Journal of Negro History, Vol XLVI, No. 4, October, 1961
The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, January, 1962
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The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLVII, No. 3, July, 1962
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The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, October, 1962
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The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1, January, 1963
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The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLVIII, No. 2, April, 1963
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The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLVIII, No.4, October, 1963
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The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XLIX, No. 1, January, 1964
Coggan Family Genealogy undated
Newspaper Clippings 1956
Newspaper Clippings 1960
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Newspaper Clippings 1972
Newspaper Clippings 1979
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Newspaper Clippings--Colorado and the Railroad in Colorado undated
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Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 1972
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Blanche Coggan's Biographical Information and Obituary undated
Blanche Coggan's Calling Cards undated
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Blanche B. Coggan Papers MSS173
Coggan Family Genealogy
Miscellaneous Notes undated
People's Church Bulletin Lansing, MI 1987
Conway Springs, Kansas Continental Pageant 1984
Coggan Family Genealogy with Photographs undated
Hawes Family Biography and Genealogy undated
Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes and Research undated
Brown Family Biography and Genealogy undated
Coggan Family Genealogy Photographs and Slides undated
Coggan Family Genealogy Photograph Album undated
Coggan Family Photographs 1 undated
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State of Michigan, Michigan Senate Resolution No. 91 of Tribute to Blanche Elizabeth
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