Jacob Bigelow was a white attorney from Massachusetts who assisted freedom seekers to escape from Washington, DC.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Ben Blackburn was a freedom seeker, interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Lucie (also Ruthie) and Thornton Blackburn were two enslaved people in Kentucky who successfully escaped to Detroit and later Windsor, Canada. British authorities in Canada refused to extradite them back to the United States.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
John Blevens was an abolitionist convicted of slave stealing in Virginia.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Susan Borders was an enslaved woman living in Illinois, where slaveholder Andrew Borders held her and her three sons under indenture contracts. Borders and her children escaped in 1842 with assistance from Illinois’s Underground Railroad network, but later slave catchers recaptured them. Borders secured her freedom in court, but her children were returned to indentured servitude.
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
William Ingersoll Bowditch was an abolitionist who assisted freedom seekers from Boston.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Lawrence Brainerd was a US senator from Vermont and investor in steamboats and railroads who lived in St. Albans, Vermont, where he helped freedom seekers escape by steamboat and railroad north.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Antislavery Politician // UGRR Operative
Frances and Thomas Brown were abolitionists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist
George Brown was the publisher of the Globe and Mail and a supporter of antislavery activism in Canada.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES:
Henry “Box” Brown (ca. 1815-1897) was a Virginia freedom seeker who arranged to have himself mailed from Richmond, Virginia to the office of the Philadelphia vigilance committee in 1849. Brown later toured as an antislavery lecturer and magician.
ESSAYS: Crew // Foner // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker