[8] July, 1888, pp. 19-88. This periodical is issued by the Firelands Historical Society of Ohio. The bulk of the number mentioned is made up of contributions in regard to the Underground Road in northwestern Ohio.
[11] April, 1896, pp. 455-463. This article is a preliminary study prepared by the author.
[12] Lillie B. C. Wyman: "Black and White," in _New England Magazine_, N.S., Vol. V, pp. 476-481; "Harriet Tubman," _ibid._, March, 1896, pp. 110-118. Nina M. Tiffany: "The Escape of William and Ellen Craft," _ibid._, January, 1890, p. 524 _et seq._; "Shadrach," _ibid._, May, 1890, pp. 280-283; "Sims," _ibid._, June, 1890, pp. 385-388; "Anthony Burns," _ibid._, July, 1890, pp. 569-576. A. H. Grimké: "Anti-Slavery Boston," _ibid._, December, 1890, pp. 441-459.
In contrast with the magazines, the newspapers have frequently published some of the stirring recollections of surviving abolitionists, but the result for the reader is usually that he learns only some anecdotes concerning a small section of the Road, without securing an insight into the real significance of the underground movement. Without undertaking here to print a full list of articles on the subject, it is worth while to notice a few newspapers in which series of sketches have appeared of more or less value in extending our geographical knowledge of the system, or in illustrating some important phase of its working. The New Lexington (Ohio) _Tribune_, from October, 1885, to February, 1886, contains a series of reminiscences, written by Mr. Thomas L. Gray, that supply interesting information about the work in southeastern Ohio. The Pontiac (Illinois) _Sentinel_, in 1890 and 1891, published fifteen chapters of "A History of Anti-Slavery Days" contributed by Mr. W. B. Fyffe, recording some episodes in the development of this Road in northeastern Illinois. The _Sentinel_, of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, in a series of articles, one of which appeared every week from July 13 to August 17, 1893, under the name of Aaron Benedict, affords a knowledge of the way in which the secret work was carried on in a typical Quaker community. In _The Republican Leader_, of Salem, Indiana, at various dates from Nov. 17, 1893, to April, 1894, E. Hicks Trueblood printed the results of some investigations begun at the instance of the author, which disclose the principal routes of south central Indiana. An account of the peculiar methods of the pedler Joseph Sider, an abductor of slaves, is also given by Mr. Trueblood. The Rev. John Todd has preserved in the columns of the Tabor (Iowa) _Beacon_, in 1890 and 1891, some valuable reminiscences, running through more than twenty numbers of the paper, under the title, "The Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa"; several of these are devoted to fugitive slave cases.[13]