Charles Peyton Lucas was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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Charles Mallory was a Confederate colonel and slaveholder who unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend from US forces in May 1861.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Shepard Mallory was one of three freedom seekers whose May 1861 escape to US lines at Fort Monroe triggered the US army’s contraband decision.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Lord Mansfield was an English judge who decided the 1772 Somerset case, in which he ruled that slavery was “so odious” and contrary to natural law that it could only exist where positive laws protected it.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Peter Martin was a free African American man living in Niagara, Canada, who witnessed the kidnapping of an enslaved woman named Chloe Cooley.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Joseph Mayo was a free African American Underground Railroad activist in Marysville, Ohio.
ESSAYS: Bordewich
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Martha and William McIntyre were antislavery activists in Adams County, Ohio who defended freedom seekers from slave catchers in 1844.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
James Miller McKim (1810-1874) was an abolitionist, graduate of the Dickinson College class of 1828, who edited the antislavery Pennsylvania Freeman and assumed a leadership role in the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative