tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27226233.post2270928070207035178..comments2024-03-28T16:09:32.911-04:00Comments on Sandusky History: The Underground Railroad in SanduskySandusky Library Archives Research Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02846774131566300889noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27226233.post-16634024145657055992018-09-18T12:49:51.579-04:002018-09-18T12:49:51.579-04:00Many of the black men listed also lived and/or wor...Many of the black men listed also lived and/or worked in the Toledo area. I am compiling a genealogical history of blacks in Toledo and other NW OH/SE MI areas as they were very connected in assisting and administering the underground rail road. New research actually does show that black people were much more heavily involved than previously written about and that their role was by many historians (including Seibert) diminished. Luckily we have information contained in Siebert's files and information shared by those less likely to diminish the role of "colored" people in their emancipating their "colored brethren" as they called each other back then in their own writings. <br /><br />Will note on the older Anonymous post that black people in the 17th through 19th centuries in America typically called themselves "African." The evolution of the labeling of black Americans is interesting to me as a black American considering that the first institutions founded by black people in America, include reference to Africa - the Free African Society and the African Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches. The founders of all of the latter were former slaves - they typically called themselves African and American - hence African American. Denisehttp://www.blackintoledo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27226233.post-19543384028007921812014-09-06T10:45:24.245-04:002014-09-06T10:45:24.245-04:00PS: Interestingly, you hear nothing about the &quo...PS: Interestingly, you hear nothing about the "Railroad," it's almost hidden, as if Whites are ashamed of having helped salves to escape the South...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27226233.post-48718551595352574122009-02-25T10:50:00.000-05:002009-02-25T10:50:00.000-05:00Your recent item about the Underground Railroad in...Your recent item about the Underground Railroad in Sandusky was very informative, fleshing out what I remember my mother telling me when I grew up in Sandusky in the 1940's and 50's. But, not mentioned was Josiah Henson, the real-life model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." His memoirs in 1849 mentioned (on p.56, available on-line thru Google Boooks) recount that his escape to Canada in 1830 were facilitated by a boat captain near Sandsky who spirited Henson and his family away to avoid bounty hunters in town. The scene, in Stowe's book, about Uncle Tom fording an icey-cold stream, took place somewhere west of Sandusky.Ed Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06425856923643133023noreply@blogger.com