. Political parties in Michigan, 1837-1860. An historical study of political issues and parties in Michigan from the admission of the state to the Civil War . who had no good reason for escaping,to tell a story appropriate for the occasion. TheseNegroes, fleeing from the slave States to the land offreedom and in most cases suffering as the result ofmany days of travel and exposure, presented a spectacle 42. Con. his father to Washington in the spring of 1841, he stoppedat Wheeling, Virginia. He had never been in a slaveState before, but he was prejudiced against slavery. Ina letter to his moth
. Political parties in Michigan, 1837-1860. An historical study of political issues and parties in Michigan from the admission of the state to the Civil War . who had no good reason for escaping,to tell a story appropriate for the occasion. TheseNegroes, fleeing from the slave States to the land offreedom and in most cases suffering as the result ofmany days of travel and exposure, presented a spectacle 42. Con. his father to Washington in the spring of 1841, he stoppedat Wheeling, Virginia. He had never been in a slaveState before, but he was prejudiced against slavery. Ina letter to his mother, he expressed his surprise at thekind treatment given to the slaves by their preconceived notions had come either from schoolbooks or from some other source. Woodbridge Papers,Vol. 132, p. 88. Sec the map for the underground routes. 44. Among the active agents of the Quaker faith were StephenBrogue, Isaac- Be mine and Zachariah Sliugert of Cass )oun1; ; Erastus Hussey of Calhoun County; and ThomasChandler of Lenawee County. Laura S. Haviland unitedwith the Methodist Church after she came to Michigan. 56 POLITICAL PARTIES IN MICHIGAN. Underground Routes to Canada Taken from Sleberte The Underground Railroad fromSlavery to Freedom, ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT 57 pathetic enough to have aroused the sympathy ofmore hardened people than these kind-hearted senti-mental country folks who dwelt along the undergroundroutes. These people, moved to compassion by thesad sight before them and by the tragic tales of woeso simply told by these fugitives, were led to condemnthe institution of slavery as a whole. The feelings of the white people of Michigan towardNegroes determined to a large extent their attitudeon the question of slavery. The majority of thecitizens of the State knew very little about the racialcharacteristics of the typical blacks in the slave-holding States. There were very few Negroes residingin Michigan in ante-bellum times45 and practically allof them
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