Biographies

Important names to remember and look up as part of your searches:

David Ruggles
From New York to Northampton Association. "David Ruggles and the Underground Railroad in New England."
http://www.davidrugglescenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Ruggles-at-200-two-panel.pdf (accessed July 24, 2011)
At the Blume Library, an online resource is:
Hodges, Graham Russell. DavidRuggles [electronic resource]: a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City / Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. NetLibrary http://blume.stmarytx.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=312423 (accessed July 24, 2011.)
 

Harriet Tubman At the Blume Library, an online resource: McGowan, James A. and William C. Kashatus. Harriet Tubman [electronic resource] : a biography / James A. McGowan and William C. Kashatus. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood, 2011.  NetLibrary http://blume.stmarytx.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=362930 (accessed July 24, 2011.) William Lloyd Garrison A primary source to read the letters of this abolitionist. William Lloyd Garrison. The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Edited by Walter M. Merrill. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. E449 .G245 Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. v. 4, 268-269, v. 19, 27.   REF E176.D56       Though dated, this dictionary gives the biographies of Harriet Tubman and Levi Coffin, two of the more prominent names in the Underground Railroad's history. Since it is a dictionary, it is easy to find the names by using the guide names on the volumes. The entries give the histories of their lives and each ends with a bibliography. Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism 1828-1860. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992. E449.Y44 1992                 This book views the Underground Railroad from the perspective of the black women who fought against slavery by speaking out and building a network to help each other. Some reprints of black and white photographs are included. A bibliography of manuscript collections, newspapers, published primary sources and books, articles, and dissertations are very helpful for further research in the back.

Sherr, Lynn  and Jurate Kazickas. Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks New York: Times Books, 1994.
REF E159.K39 1994
          This is a guide to landmarks of famous women around the United States. It is organized by states and then more narrowly to cities. Looking up Harriet Tubman in the index, the user is referred to various places in the book such as a museum about her and her birthplace.