Patrick Sneed Court Case, 1853
Patrick Sneed, who was born into slavery, escaped from the South and found work waiting tables at the Cataract Hotel in Niagara Falls, NY. He was arrested...
Underground Railway of the Lake Country of Western New York, 1903
Elbert Cook Wixom
Refugees from Slavery in Canada West; Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, 1864
S.G. Howe
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
Agitation of slavery: Who commenced! And who can end it!! Buchanan and Fillmore compared, 1856
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.
Erie Canal: A Founding of a Village, Early Industry, and a Century of Change, 2009
Extensive analysis on the Erie Canal and the Underground Railroad. Robert Richard Beely, Jr.
Voice of the Fugitive
Voice Of The Fugitive was one of the first black newspapers in Upper Canada that was aimed at fugitive and escaped slaves from the United States. Published from 1851-1854.
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
Church and slavery, or, The relations of the churches to slavery under the Constitution : considered with special reference to the constitutionality of the action of the General Assembly at Buffalo, A. D., 1853
Henry A. Howland
Is Millard Fillmore an abolitionist? 1856
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
Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier, 1899
Frank Severance
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
North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, 1856
Benjamin Drew. Has short biographies of African-Americans who escaped from slavery and made it to Canada.
People vs. Patrick Sneed: Court Papers from an 1853 Fugitive Slave Case
Sneed was arrested in Niagara Falls and tried in Buffalo. Transcribed by Ariel N. Cook, 2018
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
Application to National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom for Broderick Park, 2013
Broderick Park is Buffalo's best-documented Underground railroad site. It has been recognized as such by the National Park Service.