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MANY ROADS TO FREEDOM: ABOLITIONISM AND THE CIVIL WAR IN ROCHESTER

  INTRODUCTION AND CREDITS

MAP OF ABOLITIONIST AND CIVIL WAR SITES IN ROCHESTER

TIMELINE OF MAJOR EVENTS

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PART 1: ROCHESTER, ABOLITIONISM, AND THE ROAD TO WAR, 1830-1861
A gathering storm

Who were the abolitionists?
The Underground Railroad
Slave narratives and biographies
Locally published abolitionist newspapers
Anti-slavery books, songs, and speeches

John Brown's Rochester connections

PART 2: ROCHESTER AND THE CIVIL WAR , 1861-1865
Sending our troops
Civil War soldier photo gallery
Henry L. Achilles of the 27th Regiment of New York State Volunteers
Following the war news week by week: Moore's Rural New Yorker
Local civilian relief efforts
Civil War Master Index
Look at Currier & Ives' political cartoon collection

Read The Civil War Diary of Captain N.S. Baker, Co. G., 86th New York Vols.
Read about Lieutenant W. H. Shelton's captivity and escape from Confederate prison camps. Part I ; Part 2.

PART 3: ROCHESTER AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR, 1865 AND BEYOND
Rochester in April, 1865
Regimental histories and official records
Local monuments and historical markers

Veterans: Parades, other tributes, portraits and reunions
Frederick Douglass' funeral in Rochester
The Roster and Scrapbook of the Grand Army of the Republic, Dept. of New York


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