The
Underground
Railroad
in Indiana
• 1966 Historic
Preservation Act
• Responsibilities
• DHPA
Life as an
enslaved African
1848 Underground Railroad Routes
Madison
Elijah Anderson Home (salmon color home)
George DeBaptist
Madison
New Albany
Madison
New Albany
Evansville
Eleutherian College,
Lancaster, Indiana
Hoyt House, Lancaster, Indiana
Marion
Madison
New Albany
Evansville
Orland
Marion
Madison
New Albany
Evansville
Captain Berry Home
Orland
Huntington
Marion
Madison
New Albany
Evansville
Orland
Wabash
Huntington
Marion
Madison
New Albany
Evansville
Cass County, Michigan
Orland
South Bend
Wabash
Huntington
Marion
Madison
New Albany
Evansville
James Washington,
Barber & Conductor & Solicitor
Events Leading to Civil War
• 1857 Dred Scott
• 1859 John Brown raided Harper's Ferry
• Lincoln’s election
Civil War and Slavery
• In December of 1860 South Carolina
seceded; others joined in January. On
February 4, 1861 the Confederate States
of America was formed.
• In 1862 Congress abolished slavery in DC
and all Territories
• Lincoln offered the south a plan.
• September 1862, Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation
Wilbur Siebert
• professor at Ohio State
University in 1890s
• collected letters and
information via surveys
• mostly reached white
informants
• created detailed maps and lists
of participants
• The Underground Railroad
From Slavery to Freedom
(1902)
1848 Underground Railroad Routes
William Still
• African American conductor in
Philadelphia
• based on stories recounted by
freedom seekers as recorded in
Still’s notes
• The Underground Railroad
(1872)
Larry Gara
• The Liberty Line 1961
• concludes much of
UGRR mystique
exaggerated over time
in oral tradition
• emphasizes centrality
of freedom seekers