. History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; including many thrilling encounters between those aiding the slaves to escape and those trying to recapture them . f a diary kept by Han-sen during that period, also a key which was usedby Hansen in making his report. Without thiskey nothing in the work could be unraveled. Hansen was working and traveling over thefirst three or four tiers of counties all along thesouthern borders of Indiana and pretended to berepresenting an eastern real-estate firm fromwhich he received large packages of mail at manyof the c
. History of the Underground railroad as it was conducted by the Anti-slavery league; including many thrilling encounters between those aiding the slaves to escape and those trying to recapture them . f a diary kept by Han-sen during that period, also a key which was usedby Hansen in making his report. Without thiskey nothing in the work could be unraveled. Hansen was working and traveling over thefirst three or four tiers of counties all along thesouthern borders of Indiana and pretended to berepresenting an eastern real-estate firm fromwhich he received large packages of mail at manyof the county seats and large towns all alongsouthern Indiana. The young men assigned to dothis hazardous work under him were men whocould be depended upon to do it in a way that nosuspicion of their real mission would be had. Theywere under a most perfect discipline, similar tothat the secret service men were under during thewar times in the sixties. There was a code usedthat each man was thoroughly acquainted had their numbers and all that was said ordone about him was by number, which numberswere referred to as numbers of land, towns, rangesand sections and by acres when the numbers were 16. JOHN of the Anti-Slavery League. ORGANIZATION ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE above thirty-six. The routes these men were onwere called by the names of timber, such as lin-den, oak, maple, hickory, walnut, dogwood, sassa-fras, beech and all the sorts of timber that werenative of the country in which they worked. There were many places that runaway ne-groes crossed the Ohio river from Kentucky intoIndiana. I shall not attempt to give a descriptionof any of the routes on the other border states,for the only one who knew anything about thiswork that I became acquainted with was the su-perintendent of the Indiana division. I shall namethe most used routes commencing above themouth of the Wabash River on the Ohio and on upto the neighborhood of Cincinnati. The most dif-ficult proble
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