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This list includes materials of interest from the Duggan Library's Archives/Special Collections. This list is not comprehensive -- in part because a number of archives and special collections materials remain to be cataloged. To ensure that you don't overlook works of potential importance to your research, visit the Archives and our Archivist and Curator of Rare Books, Doug Denne, will be happy to help.

Captain Canot: Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. (1855)
Canot, Theodore, 1804-1860.
SPB 65

Dred : a tale of the great Dismal Swamp. (1856)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
By request

Indiana Negro registers, 1852-1865. (1994)
Robbins, Coy D.
By request

Ordeal of the Union (1947)
Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
By request

Presbyterians and the Negro: A history. (1966)
Murray, Andrew E.
Special Collections BX8946.N4 M8

Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad : being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents. (1876)
Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877
By request

Recollections of a busy life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery; to which are added miscellanies ... also, a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce. (1868)
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
By request

Also consider visiting the PALNI Digital Collections website. (PALNI is a group of Indiana college libraries, including Hanover.) It includes digitized photographs, searchable by a variety of fields. Hanover College currently has almost 400 of its historic images in the database, and more will be added soon.

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