John Price was a Kentucky freedom seeker famously rescued from federal custody by a group that included faculty and students from Oberlin College in September 1858.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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Edward Prigg (1791-1853) was a Maryland slave catcher convicted under Pennsylvania’s 1826 personal liberty law. Prigg appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction and struck down many Northern states’ personal liberty laws in Prigg. v. Pennsylvania (1842).
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Robert Purvis (1810-1898) was a Black abolitionist and one of the leaders of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
David Putnam Jr. was an Underground Railroad activist near Marietta, Ohio.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Caroline Quarlls was a freedom seeker from St. Louis who escaped by boat in 1843.
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Rachel was an enslaved woman living in Louisville, Kentucky who escaped in 1856 with the assistance of Louisville grocer F. George Cope.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Edinbur Randall escaped from Jacksonville, Florida by boat in 1854 and escaped to Martha’s Vineyard, where African Americans and Indigenous people sheltered him. Randall reportedly worked at New Bedford under the alias Edgar Jones.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
John Rankin (1793-1886) was an abolitionist, Presbyterian minister, and Underground Railroad activist.
ESSAYS: Barker // Churchill // Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Charles Bennett Ray was an African American minister and editor of the Colored American.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist