Besides free African-Americans, white abolitionists also settled in the area of today’s Shawnee National Forest. James M. West resided about three miles south of Miller Grove and much of what is speculated about the community’s involvement in the Underground Railroad comes from a collection of West’s letters. The letters are mostly correspondence between himself and members of the American Missionary Association (AMA). James West was a strident abolitionist and a preacher for the AMA. Along…
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