John Berry (1789-1854) and Mary Meachum (1801-1869) were free African Americans and Underground Railroad activists in St. Louis. John Berry was an African American minister in the city, while Mary continued to aid freedom seekers and promote African American education after her husband’s death.
ROLE: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
William Hamilton Merritt was a legislator in the Assembly of Upper Canada.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Robert Miller was a free African American activist in Redoak, Ohio. Slave catchers stabbed him to death in 1844 when he resisted their efforts to search his home for freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Myrtilla Miner was a Northern schoolteacher who established a school for African American girls in Washington, DC and assisted several African American children to escape.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
John Minkins was a free African American ship steward who assisted freedom seekers to escape from Norfolk, Virginia.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Shadrach Minkins was a freedom seeker at the center of a controversial fugitive slave rescue in 1851. Minkins escaped from Norfolk, Virginia to Boston, where abolitionists rescued him from a federal rendition hearing in February 1851.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Ralph Montgomery was an enslaved man working in Iowa whose seizure prompted the Iowa Territorial Supreme Court to rule that “no man in this territory can be reduced to slavery.”
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Margaret Morgan was a Maryland freedom seeker seized by Maryland slave catcher Edward Prigg in 1837. Prigg’s conviction under Pennsylvania’s 1826 personal liberty law for kidnapping Morgan led to the US Supreme Court’s decision in Prigg. v. Pennsylvania (1842), which not only overturned Prigg’s conviction but also ruled that Northern states’ many personal liberty laws (like Pennsylvania’s) were unconstitutional.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Hannah Morrison was an enslaved women held along with her mother as indentured servants in Illinois by Andrew Borders. Hannah escaped in 1842, was recaptured, but secured her freedom in court.
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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