Anti-Slavery Trilogy, 1953
In 1953, historian Hildegarde F. Graf (1915-1997) wrote three articles about anti-slavery efforts in Buffalo and Erie County. They are collected here.
Visual Representation of Black Individuals at the Forefront of Underground Railroad Interpretation, 2023
Alison Spongr
Significance of Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in the Buffalo area, 1840-1860
Timothy J. Nixon
From Slavery to a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church, Canada, 1891
S. J. Celestine Edwards. Includes chapters on Buffalo.
Proceedings of the National Liberty Convention, Held at Buffalo, N.Y., June 14th & 15th, 1848
National Free soil convention of '48. Held in Buffalo. Paper read before the society, January 7, 1878
John Hubbell
Illustrated edition of the life and escape of Wm. Wells Brown from American slavery written by himself, 1851
The author lived in Buffalo in the early 1840s
Narrative of William W. Brown, an American slave, 1849
The author lived in Buffalo in the early 1840s
Oliver Dyer's phonographic report of the proceedings of the National Free Soil Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., August 9th and 10th, 1848
Survey of Sites Relating to the Underground Railroad, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Niagara Falls and Surrounding Area, 1820-1880
A historic resources survey report by Dr. Judith Wellman, 2012
Minutes of the National Convention of Colored Citizens; Held at Buffalo; on the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th of August, 1843
Colored Conventions Project Digital Records Project
Street as school: Ideas and Assembly in Buffalo seen through the diary of George Washington Jonson (1835-1849)
Jonson, who was white, was an abolitionist in Buffalo