37/39 With the exception of what appears in Still's and Siebert's works on the _Underground Railroad_ and the records of the meetings of the Quakers promoting this movement, there is little helpful material to be found in single volumes bearing on the antebellum period. Since the Civil War, however, more has been said and written concerning the movements of the Negro population. E.H. Botume's _First Days Among the Contrabands_ and John Eaton's _Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen_ cover very well the period of rebellion. |