Amos Lawrence was a Cotton Whig in Massachusetts who turned against the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act after the controversial 1854 rendition of Anthony Burns from Boston.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES:
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Matilda Lawrence was a freedom seeker remanded to slavery from Ohio in 1837. Antislavery attorney Salmon P. Chase represented Lawrence and lost her case, but his argument advanced an antislavery reading of the US Constitution which became influential in antislavery circles.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
George Liele formed First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist
Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States.
ESSAYS: Barker // Harrold // Oakes
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Eliza and John Little were freedom seekers interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Dan Josiah Lockhart was a freedom seeker who escaped from Frederick County, Virginia in 1847 and resettled in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Jermain Loguen (1813-1872) escaped from slavery in Tennessee, becoming a prolific Underground Railroad activist and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. The son of his white slaveholder, Loguen escaped from Tennessee in 1834, settling in Canada West for several years and changing his name from “Jarm Logue.” By the 1840s, Loguen relocated to Syracuse, New York, where his very public assistance to freedom seekers earned him the title of the “Underground Railroad King.”
ESSAYS: Barker // Blackett // Bordewich // Crew // Foner // Jackson // LaRoche // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Ellis Gray Loring (1803-1858) was an antislavery lawyer in Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) was an antislavery congressman from Illinois who sheltered freedom seekers in his home.
ROLES: Antislavery Politician