164
underground railroad site map for, xiv
Manhattan Anti-Slavery Society (black women’s group), 94
Manhattan Anti-Slavery Society (Garrisonian organization), 99
Manokey, Eliza, 192–93
Mansfield, Lord, 37–38
Mansion House Hotel, 79
manumission, 127, 133
broken promises of, 199, 200
laws regulating, 40
Manumission Society, New York, 40–44, 48–50, 54, 56, 58, 64, 69, 74, 78
maritime underground railroad, see ships, fugitive escapes on
Martin, Peter, 61–62
Martinsburg, Va., 207
Maryland, 21, 28, 87, 116, 123, 126, 127, 128, 136, 140, 146, 204, 228
decline of slavery in, 122, 133
as destination for fugitives, 30
dispute between Pennsylvania and, 108–10
free blacks in, 16–17
fugitives originating in, 1–2, 3, 7, 10, 16–19, 25, 69, 70, 71–73, 84, 99, 108, 114–15, 122, 131, 132, 138, 150, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161, 169, 190, 191–92, 194–95, 199, 200–3, 200, 206–10, 213, 221
secession issue in, 218
underground railroad operations in, 155, 159, 200
Maryland State Penitentiary, 88
Mason, James M., 119–21, 125–26
Massachusetts, 73, 109, 121, 154
abolitionist activities in, 13, 18, 96, 106, 111, 177
charity fairs in, 183
in colonial period, 92
as destination for fugitives, 37
slavery abolished in, 36
Mather, Increase and Cotton, 92
Matlack, Lucius C., 181
Matthews, Peter, 208–9
May, Samuel J. (Syracuse), 97, 146–47, 181
May, Samuel, Jr. (Boston), 19
McCealee, Albert, 206
McCourt, Ann, 198
McHenry, Jerry, 146–47, 179
McKim, James Miller, 23, 26, 102, 103–5, 162, 176, 186, 197, 210, 211, 212, 213, 218, 222, 224
after Civil War, 226
McNamee, Theodore, 129–30
McPherson, John, 71–72
Medford, Mass., 95
Medford, N.J., 151
Melville, Herman, 147
Mendenhall, Isaac, 159
Methodists, 88, 103
manumission encouraged by, 32
metropolitan corridor, 151–89
friction between Philadelphia and N.Y. in, 175–76
metropolitan corridor ( continue d )
key agents in, 177–78
major sites of, 157
Metscher, Henry, 71, 75
Mexican-American War (1846–1848), 116, 120
Mexico, as safe haven for fugitives, 16, 25
Michigan, 137, 145, 212
personal liberty laws in, 216
Mickle, Andrew H., 113
Middle Passage, 104
Middletown, Del., 202
Middletown, Md., 161
Mifflin, Thomas, 38–39
military:
black Civil War regiments in, 123
freedom for slaves through, 33
Minkins, Shadrach, 148
Mirror of Liberty , 7, 67–68, 71, 76
Mississippi, 142, 148
Mississippi Valley, 223
Missouri, 122, 192
fugitives originating in, 16
secession issue in, 218, 220
Missouri Compromise (1820), 216
Mobile, Ala., 45, 138
as destination for fugitives, 16
Moby Dick (schooner), 147
Montreal, 148, 178
Moore, Noadiah, 88
Moore, Sarah, 172–73
moral reform, vs., 55
“moral suasion,” militant resistance vs., 75, 124, 145, 146
Morel, Junius C., 57, 166
Morgan, Edwin D., 178, 220, 227
Morgan, Margaret, 108–9
Mormons, 178
Morris, Gouverneur, 39–40
Morris, James, 198, 205
Morris, Robert H., 79
Morton, George W., 133–34, 169
Mott, James, 143
Mott, Lucretia, 143, 190–91
Mt. Pleasant, Md., 207
Mühlenberg, Henry, 35
Mullin, Joseph, 214
Munson, Alexander, 210
Murray, Anna, 1, 3, 18
Myers, Harriet, 178
Myers, Stephen, 79–80, 177–79, 182, 212–13, 221
during and after Civil War, 227
Myers, William John Jay, 178
Nalle, Charles, 190
Napoleon, Louis:
after Civil War, 230
death and funeral of, 99
marriage of, 176, 212, 253
paucity of information on, 98–99, 230
as underground railroad agent, 98–99, 107, 112, 128, 139, 140–41, 164, 172–76, 212, 230, 267
Nash, Daniel D., 52, 70–72
Nashville, Tenn., 105
Nat (fugitive), 71–72
Nation ,