Manuel Luis del Fierro was a resident of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, where he defended his maid, freedom seeker Mathilde Hennes, from Louisiana slave catchers.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Octave Delahoussaye was a Louisiana slaveholder.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Richard Dillingham (1823-1850) was a Quaker abolitionist convicted of slave stealing in Nashville, Tennessee in 1848.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Basil Dorsey (ca. 1808-1872) was a freedom seeker whose 1837 escape and slave catchers’ attempt to recapture him in Pennsylvania led to the founding of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee. Dorsey latter settled in Northampton, Massachusetts
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Anna Murray Douglass (1813-1882) frequently assisted freedom seekers from her Rochester, New York home while her husband, Frederick Douglass, was on the abolitionist lecture circuit.
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was perhaps the most famous freedom seeker in US history, escaping from slavery in Baltimore in 1838 to become an abolitionist orator, writer, and politician.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Barker // Crew // Finkelman // Jackson // Miller
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Frederick Douglass used forged papers to escape from Baltimore in 1838 (House Divided Project)
Dr. John Doy (-1869) was an English-born abolitionist best known for his dramatic escape from a Missouri prison. In January 1859, Doy attempted to lead a group of Missouri freedom seekers from Kansas to Iowa, but slave catchers overtook the party and clapped Doy and his son in jail. In June 1859, Missouri authorities sentenced Doy to five years of hard labor for “seducing” slaves from the state, but a band of Lawrence abolitionists rescued Doy from prison in July. Still a fugitive, Doy published his Narrative (1860) recounting his confinement and rescue. Missouri governor Thomas Fletcher finally pardoned Doy after the state abolished slavery in 1865. Doy died in 1869 in Battle Creek, Michigan, of suspected suicide.
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Edward J. “Patrick” Doyle was a Kentucky student convicted of leading a stampede of over 40 freedom seekers from Lexington, Kentucky.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Daniel Drayton was a seaman convicted for aiding 77 freedom seekers’ escape from Washington, DC in 1848 aboard the Pearl.
ROLES: UGRR Operative