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The Last Train is a forty-three page handwritten account (with additional notes interleaved with the original) of what is purported to be the last organized Underground Railroad (UGRR) journey through eastern Kansas in June of 1860. Charles Leonhardt, a participant, wrote the account in 1870. The Underground Railroad was a loose network of antislavery sympathizers who helped shuttle fugitive slaves from southern slaveholding states north to Canada. Fugitive slaves chose from several different routes through Kansas depending on their location within the territory.
Creator: Leonhardt, Charles Frederick William, 1827-1884
Date: 1870
Item Number: 221986
Call Number: Leonhard Coll. #416, Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 221986
Collections - Manuscript - Leonhardt, Charles
Date - 1870s - 1870
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition - Underground Railroad
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Manuscript
People - African Americans
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Transportation - Trails - Underground Railroad
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Manuscript
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/221986