Seth Concklin was an abolitionist who attempted to help Peter Still escape from Alabama in 1851. Concklin and Still were recaptured in Indiana, and Concklin found dead later.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Chloe Cooley was an enslaved woman living in Ontario, Canada. Her 1793 kidnapping by a US slaveholder galvanized support for Upper Canada’s gradual abolition law.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
F. George Cope was a grocer and Underground Railroad activist in Louisville, Kentucky. Cope was never convicted, but spent years in prison on charges of assisting an enslaved woman named Rachel to escape to Canada.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John Anthony Copeland was a free African American abolitionist hanged for his role in John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry raid.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Samuel Cornish (1795-1858) was an African American minister and co-editor of Freedom’s Journal.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist
Ellen (1826-1891) and William Craft (1824-1900) rose to international fame for their daring escape aboard a train from Georgia in 1848. Ellen, who was light-skinned, posed as a male slaveholder, and William acted as her enslaved valet. The Crafts settled for several years in Boston, where they publicly defied the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, before ultimately relocating to England. There, the couple published their story, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860). After the Civil War, the Crafts returned to Reconstruction-era Georgia and opened schools for freedpeople.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Crew // Grover // Larson // Oakes // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Alfred Critchlow ran a daguerreotype case factory in Florence, Massachusetts and helped shelter freedom seeker Lewis French, one of his employees, from slave catchers.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Adam Crosswhite (1799-1878) was a freedom seeker at the center of a controversial fugitive slave rescue in 1847 that led many slaveholders to call for harsher federal fugitive slave legislation. Crosswhite, wife Sarah, and their four children John Anthony, Benjamin Franklin, Cyrus Jackson, and Lucretia, escaped from Kentucky in 1843 and settled at Marshall, Michigan. When slave catchers caught up with the Crosswhites there in January 1847, local residents defended the family and aided their escape.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
George DeBaptiste was a free Black Underground activist in Madison, Indiana.
ROLES: UGRR Operative