A Gateway to Freedom
Historical Marker
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Footnote 3
Many freedom-seekers were aided by other slaves,
free blacks, and anti-slavery whites--all risking violence and arrest.
New Albany Daily Ledger, January 18, 1861.
Pamela R. Peters, The Underground Railroad in Floyd County (Jefferson, N.C., 2001), 7-8.
Pamela R. Peters, The Underground Railroad in Floyd County (Jefferson, N.C., 2001), 90-91.