[415] "In Boston there were many places where fugitives were received and taken care of. Every anti-slavery man was ready to protect them, and among these were some families not known to be anti-slavery." James Freeman Clarke, Anti-Slavery Days, p. 86.
[416] Letter of Mr. Bowditch, Boston, April 5, 1893.
[417] Letter of Mr. Higginson, Glimpsewood, Dublin, N.H., July 24, 1896.
[418] T. W. Higginson, Atlantic Monthly, March, 1897.
[419] Article on "The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Workings," in Fitchburg Daily Sentinel, Oct. 31, 1893.
[420] Letter of Mr. F. B. Sanborn, Concord, Mass., Feb. 1, 1896, states that "Concord was a place of resort for fugitives." Letter of Mr. S. Shurtleff, South Paris, Me., May 25, 1896, states that "The direct line of the Underground Railroad was from Boston through Vermont, via St. Albans."
[421] Atlantic Monthly, March, 1897, p. 345; Fitchburg Daily Sentinel, Oct. 31, 1893; letter of Mr. Sanborn, Concord, Mass., Feb. 1, 1896.
[422] Letter of Mr. Dodge, March, 1893.
[423] Letter of Mr. Putnam, Lynn, Mass., Feb. 14, 1894.
[424] Old Anti-Slavery Days, p. 150.