Grace Shackman: The Underground Railroad in Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Observer, Dezember 1998. Dort heißt es u.a.: „It is estimated that 40,000 former slaves and their families were living in Canada at the time of the Civil War. About half of them eventually moved back to the United States. They came over a period of decades to rejoin family, to return to a warmer climate, or to pursue jobs or education. In her memoir, Laura Haviland mentions a former slave named John White who after emancipation removed to Ann Arbor, Michigan to educate his children. Many Ann Arbor families trace their descent to these black Canadians. The local black Elks Lodge, according to member William Hampton, ‚was formed by a group mostly from Canada.‘ Several well-known historic figures, including Charles Baker, co-owner of the Ann Arbor Foundry, and Claude Brown, who ran a secondhand store in the Main Street building that now houses Laky's Salon, came to Ann Arbor from Canada.“
Dale E. Jones u. a.: Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN, Glenmary Research Center, 2002. Zusammenfassung abrufbar by city-data.com (Memento vom 14. Mai 2015 im Internet Archive) (englisch).
