Solomon Moseby was an enslaved man who escaped from Kentucky to Canada in 1837. After a sheriff arrested Moseby, more than 200 African Americans from Niagara, Canada rescued him.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was a Quaker abolitionist and suffragist in Philadelphia.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Harriet and Stephen Myers were Black abolitionists who sheltered freedom seekers in their Albany, New York home.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Charles Nalle was a Virginia freedom seeker rescued from federal custody in Troy, New York in April 1860.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Louis Napoleon (1800-1881) was a free Black Underground Railroad operative in New York City. Working with Sydney Howard Gay, Napoleon escorted freedom seekers arriving in the city to the vigilance committee’s offices.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Charles Nelson was a freedom seeker. Vermont’s secretary of state Chauncey L. Knapp and Underground Railroad activist Rowland T. Robinson assisted Nelson to freedom.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Christopher Nicholson was a freedom seeker who escaped from Fredericksburg, Virginia and resettled in St. Catharines, Canada.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Mrs. Padgett operated a Washington, DC boardinghouse and worked with Charles Torrey, and Thomas and Elizabeth Smallwood to assist freedom seekers during the early 1840s.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Thomas Page was a freedom seeker from Norfolk, Virginia, interviewed by William Still in Philadelphia.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Eliza and William Parker (1821-1891) were freedom seekers who organized vigilance forces against a federal posse in the Christiana resistance.
ESSAYS: Finkelman // Jackson // Pinsker // Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative