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Description
An account book kept by Zachariah T. Shugart between 1838 and 1854, which includes ten pages of listings of enslaved people, referred to on page 96 as "Runaway Negroes," whom he and his associate Stephen Bogue helped transport to freedom after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. The book also contains records of Shugart's income and expenses, including those covering his boarding house which served as an Underground Railroad station. Zachariah Taylor Shugart (1805-1881) was a Quaker abolitionist and an operator of the Quaker line of the Underground Railroad in Cass County, Michigan.
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