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URR NEWS: NEW PUBLICATIONS: VERMONT RESPONSE TO THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW,
1850, STORIES OF WILLIAM STILL AND LEVI COFFIN | JOURNAL OF THE
AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY CALL FOR ARTICLES ON THE
URR | QUERY ABOUT ELIZA WILSON, ALBANY, NEW YORK
NEW PUBLICATION: VERMONT RESPONSE TO THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
"Another Nullification Crisis: Vermont's 1850 Habeas Corpus Law," by Horace
K. Houston, Jr., in The New England Quarterly 77 (June 2004), pp. 252-272.
NEW PUBLICATION: FLEEING FOR FREEDOM
Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as told by Levi
Coffin and William Still. Edited with an introduction by George and Willene
Hendrick (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004), contains selections from the
Underground Railroad accounts of Levi Coffin of Indiana and William Still
of Philadelphia, with an historical introduction.
CALL FOR ARTICLES: JOURNAL OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY
The Afro-American Historical Society has gotten positive response for the
publication of the special issue of their Journal in Fall 2003, and have
issued another call for articles on the Underground Railroad for the Fall
2005 issue. The submission deadline is January 30, 2005. Articles should be
limited to forty-five double-spaced pages with appropriate references.
Journal editor Sylvia Polk-Burriss will be happy to discuss publishing
criteria with potential authors.
All materials for publication should be submitted to: Sylvia Polk-Burriss,
Editor; AAHGS Journal; 14340 Rosetree Court; Silver Spring, MD 20906 or via
e-mail at [email protected].
For information about the Afro-American Genealogical Society, including a
useful list of articles printed in previous issues of the Journal, see
their web site: http://www.aahgs.org/journal.htm
The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society is a
semi-annual publication of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical
Society, Inc. The Journal provides a medium for the publication of original
manuscripts, articles, and information on African and African American
history and genealogy. The Journal is committed to documenting and
preserving the African and African American experience by publishing
historical and genealogical subject matter of interest to the African
American family researcher, and facilitating the dissemination of
historical and genealogical resources that will assist the African American
family researchers.
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: ELIZA WILSON, ALBANY, NY, 1840s
From Paul Stewart comes this request for information on a freedom seeker
who was in Albany, NY, in the early 1840s:
A person who works with us on various projects has asked me to float a
question out to this list serv regarding a person named Eliza Wilson. Eliza
Wilson was a woman who was a freedom seeker in the early 1840's and came
through the Capital Region of New York State. We know very little about
her.
Her presence in the area is recorded in the Tocsin of Liberty in 1841
and recalled in the Memoir of Abel Brown published in 1849. Little is
recorded other than that she suffered bad treatment through beatings and
was illiterate at the time. She is known to have fled to Canada. There is
an Eliza Wilson that turns up in the 1850s in Albany as a property owner
but it seems unlikely that this is the same Eliza. It seems the Eliza of the
1850s in Albany is probably white and is a property owner though she is
living in close proximity to a collection of UGRR activists. Since we do
not know if our Eliza of the 1840s is dark or light we can't easily
speculate on if she crossed the color lines somehow as far as the recorder
of the City Directories was concerned. As far as her flight to Canada, we
have no information about where she may have gone. We do know that some of
the people who passed through Albany at that time went on Dawn on the far
side of the lower Canada West toward Detroit but we cannot speculate
clearly on Eliza Wilson in that connection. Does anyone have any ideas? Has
anyone seen any helpful evidence or information? Thanks in advance.
If you have information or suggestions, please contact Paul Stewart via
e-mail at: [email protected]
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library
September 8, 2004
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