The Underground (Freedom's Road) and Other Upstate Tales

vi, [4], 181, [1] pp. Includes eight black-and-white photographic plates. "Hidden in a wooden box on a jolting wagon, a Negro mother and her young daughter rode for 22 days an 22 nights all the long way from Washington, D.C. to Warsaw. A Naples undertaker carried fugitive slaves in his hearses, sometimes concealing them in coffins. When his mother, a tiny woman, became ill on their flight to freedom, her son put her in a bag which he carried for miles over his shoulder. ...the story of the secret network which spirited thousands of runaway slaves to Canada and freedom throughout Central-Western New York before the Civil War." Arch Merrill (August 5, 1894 - July 15, 1974) was a newspaper reporter for the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle from 1923 to the late 1960s. He was a prolific writer, best known for his articles in the Sunday paper on history and folklore of the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes of upstate New York.