Scio Township, Michigan

 

Theodore Foster Home Zeeb Rd Theodore G. Foster was the editor, with Guy Beckley of Ann Arbor, of the national abolitionist publication, the Signal of Liberty, which was published from 1841-1847 in Ann Arbor and in 1848 in Battle Creek. The newspaper printed the stories of fugitive slaves after they passed through Washtenaw County, often on their way to Canada. The paper featured local, state, national and international news as it related to the struggles of slavery. All that remains of this house is the stone foundation, location uncertain at this time.

Resources "Ann Arbor." Michigan Pulses of Underground Railroad and Anti-Slavery Activism. Underground Railroad Tour at the Historic First Congregational Church of Detroit. 29 October 2007 <http://www.the-ugrr.org/home/pulses.asp?CityID=1>. Quis, John W. "'The Great Majority of Our Subscribers are Farmer'": The Michigan Abolitionist Constituency of the 1840s." Journal of the Early Republic 14.3 (Autumn 1994): 325-358. JSTOR. Albion College Library, Albion, MI. 12 December 2007 <http://www.jstor.org>. "Timeline of Slavery, Resistance and Freedom (1837-1893)." Michigan History, Arts and Libraries. 3 October 2007 <http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_44390-158720--,00.html>.

Created for Central Michigan University's HUM 797 Special Topics in Humanities:
The Underground Railroad in Literature, History, Film, and the Arts, with Dr. Maureen Eke

Last updated December 17, 2007 by Jennie Thomas