Thomas Hedgebeth was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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Alexander Hemsley (c. 1800 – ) was a freedom seeker, reverend, interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Francis Henderson was a freedom seeker, interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
George Henderson was a slaveholder in Williamstown, Virginia, who struggled to recapture a dozen freedom seekers who escaped into Ohio.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Mathilde Hennes was a freedom seeker who successfully resisted slave catchers in Reynosas, Tamaulipas, Mexico in 1850.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Jerry Henry was a freedom seeker at the center of a controversial fugitive slave rescue in 1851.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was a freedom seeker, preacher, and a leading voice of the antislavery movement. Born into slavery in Maryland, Henson escaped to Canada during the 1830s, served in Britain’s Black militia, and published his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson (1849). Henson’s life story may have partially inspired the character of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s best-selling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). Henson died in Ontario, Canada in 1883.
ESSAYS: Barker // Crew // LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
Edward Hicks was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Simon Hill was a freedom seeker from Appomattox County, Virginia, interviewed by Sydney Howard Gay in New York.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker