[Footnote 31: The Journal of Negro History, I, pp. 132-162.]
[Footnote 32: Ibid., I, 138.]
[Footnote 33: Olmsted, Back Country, p. 134.]
[Footnote 34: In the Appalachian mountains, however, the settlers were loath to follow the fortunes of the ardent pro-slavery element. Actual abolition, for example, was never popular in western Virginia, but the love of the people of that section for freedom kept them estranged from the slaveholding districts of the State, which by 1850 had completely committed themselves to the pro-slavery propaganda. In the Convention of 1829-30 Upshur said there existed in a great portion of the West (of Virginia) a rooted antipathy to the slave. John Randolph was alarmed at the fanatical spirit on the subject of slavery, which was growing in Virginia,—See the Journal of Negro History, I, p. 142.]
[Footnote 35: Adams, Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery.]
[Footnote 36: The Journal of Negro History, I, pp. 132-160.]
[Footnote 37: Siebert, Underground Railroad, p. 166.]
[Footnote 38: Adams, Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery.]
[Footnote 39: Siebert, Underground Railroad, chaps. v and vi.]
[Footnote 40: An Address to the People of North Carolina on the Evils of Slavery.]