Charley was an Underground Railroad activist in Chicago, Illinois.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) was an antislavery lawyer and politician, Ohio senator, governor, US secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
William Cheney was a Louisiana slaveholder arrested in Mexico for attempting to recapture freedom seeker Mathilde Hennes in 1850.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Rufus Choate (1799-1859) was an antislavery lawyer from Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Alanson M. Clark was a cattle and sheep breeder who employed a freedom seeker near St. Albans, Vermont.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
James Freeman Clark was a Boston resident who lived next door to antislavery activists George and Susan Hilliard.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES:
Thomas Clarkson was a British abolitionist who spearheaded the campaign to end the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist
Catherine (1803-1881) and Levi Coffin (1798-1877) were a Quaker couple renowned for their Underground Railroad activism. The couple relocated from North Carolina to Indiana in 1826, where they assisted more than 2,000 freedom seekers over two decades. In 1847, the Coffins moved to Cincinnati and continued their Underground Railroad work. During the Civil War, the couple turned their attention to aiding wartime freedom seekers in contraband camps. By the time Levi Coffin died in 1877, he had come to be known as the “President of the Underground Railroad” in recognition for his prolific aid to freedom seekers. Catherine, who had been crucial to those same efforts, died in 1881.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Barker // Bordewich // Churchill // Crew // Larson
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
John Colborne served as lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, where he welcomed African Americans fleeing slavery and discrimination in the United States.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Antislavery Politician