James C. Brown was an African American activist in Ohio.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist
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J.M. Brown was an Underground Railroad activist in New Orleans and an AME bishop.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John Brown was an abolitionist best known for his controversial and ill-fated raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
ESSAYS: Barker // Jackson // Johnson // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
John L. Brown was a Maine abolitionist convicted for helping a freedom seeker in Charleston, South Carolina.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Joseph E. Brown was the governor of Georgia who argued that slaveholders should support secession ecause slave property was no longer secure.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
William Wells Brown was a freedom seeker who escaped from Missouri in 1834 and became a celebrated author and speaker on the abolitionist lecture circuit.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Barker // Crew // Johnson
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Henry Clay Bruce and Pauline Bruce were an enslaved couple in Missouri who escaped from slavery in 1864.
ESSAY: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Andrew Bryan founded of the one of the first African American churches in Savannah, Georgia.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES:
Sarah Buchanon was a free Black boarding house operator in Philadelphia who worked with vigilance leader William Still to shelter freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Noah Buley was one of four freedom seekers who escaped from Maryland slaveholder Edward Gorsuch and resisted recapture during the Christiana resistance in 1851.
ESSAYS: Jackson // Oakes // Pinsker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker