Henrietta Buckmaster, 1958:
He [Ross] had developed a code which fugitives committed to memory. It led them safely from station to station. For example, Meadville, Ohio, was known by the number 10; Seville, Ohio, by 20; Media, Ohio, by 27. Cleveland was called "hope"; Sandusky, "sunrise: Detroit, "midnight"; and the ports of entry into Canada were all bursts of praise. Windsor was "Glory to God,"' Port Stanley, "God be Praised." So "Helpers work at midnight" was merely a poetry phrase except to the slave who held the key.
- Henrietta Buckmaster, Flight into Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad
(NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1958), 138.
[Henrietta Buckmaster was the pseudonym for Henrietta Henklel]
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