"Liberty or Death"

  Hot soup with soda biscuits, and ham and grits, and peach cobbler-three servings!-you know it's rude to gobble up so much, but you can't stop yourself. It feels so good to eat again, and to be warm, and just to be with people. When you turn down a fourth plate of cobbler, the stationmistress shows you to a tiny basement room with four narrow beds. "You get some sleep now. And when you wake up, just stay down here quietly; you never know who's around. We'll come and get you when it's time to leave." "But where do I go from here" you ask. "Oh, you're in luck. There's a certain somebody coming through here who's very brave and clever, and knows the way well. I don't like to use names-but believe me, you'll be in the best of hands."

(left) Laura Haviland's outfit is a good example of the modest Quaker costume. Haviland served the Underground Railroad as both a stationmaster and a conductor, and also started a school that taught blacks and whites, boys and girls, together-a revolutionary idea at the time. Here she holds iron shackles and a "knee-stiffener," used to keep slaves from running away; beneath her foot is an iron slave-collar. Later she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she taught school and organized a "Union Church" to serve ex-slaves of all denominations.(North Star To Freedom pg. 76)