Willard Green was a slave catcher involved in an 1847 attempt to recapture freedom seekers near Marietta, Ohio.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
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Leonard Grimes was the pastor of Twelfth Baptist Church in Boston who assisted freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Grover // LaRoche // Pinsker
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Rev. Leonard Grimes ( House Divided Project)
William Grose was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
John Hale was an antislavery US senator from New Hampshire and the Free Soil Party’s 1852 presidential candidate.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Stephen Hale was Alabama’s secession commissioner who unsuccessfully tried to persuade Kentucky to join the Confederacy.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
George and Joshua Hammond were among 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
Jesse Happy was an enslaved man who escaped from Kentucky in 1837 and successfully reached Canada, where authorities refused to extradite him back to the United States.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Dr. Ellwood Harvey was an abolitionist who assisted freedom seeker Anna Maria Weems to escape from Washington, DC.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Laura Haviland (1808-1898) was a Michigan abolitionist and Underground Railroad operative.
ESSAYS: Barker // Crew // Larson // Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Harriet (1816-1893) and Lewis Hayden (1811-1889) fled slavery and became key leaders in Boston’s antislavery vigilance network. In 1844, the Haydens (Lewis, Harriet, and Harriet’s son from a previous marriage) escaped from Kentucky with Harriet’s five year old son Joe thanks to help from white abolitionists Calvin Fairbank and Delia Webster, who faced lengthy jail time for their role in helping the Haydens. Harriet and Lewis went to Detroit and Canada, before eventually relocating to Boston. There, the Haydens became active members of Boston’s antislavery vigilance committee, sheltering freedom seekers (most famously William and Ellen Craft) and openly defying the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. The Haydens remained active in the Underground Railroad and Republican politics through the Civil War. In 1873, Lewis Hayden won election to a single term in the Massachusetts state legislature.
ESSAYS: Barker // Blackett //Crew // Cohen // Grover // Larson // LaRoche // Miller // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Lewis and Harriet Hayden (NPS)