Illustrations

Illustrations appear in a gallery following page 82.

1. 1855 cover of Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

2. Portrait of William Fitzhugh, William Grimes’s ancestor and founder of Eagle’s Nest

3. Portrait of the children of Philip Grymes

4. Photograph of Montpelier, the estate of Colonel William Thornton

5. Family Bible of the African American Grimes Clan

a. Marriages

b. Births

c. Deaths

6–10. Letters pertaining to the sale of William Grimes

11. William and Clarissa Grimes’s Headstone, New Haven, Connecticut

12. Library fund handbill, featuring Mrs. Cecelia Williams