Enoch Reed (ca. 1813-1853) was an African American activist who helped rescue Jerry Henry from federal custody in Syracuse, New York on October 1, 1851. Federal authorities convicted Reed for violating the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, but Reed died while awaiting his appeal.
ESSAYS: Finkelman
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Charles Rivers was a US slaveholder who emigrated to the Mexican province of Téjas with several enslaved people, four of whom successfully sued him for their freedom in 1831, on the grounds that Rivers had imported them illegally.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
John Beverley Robinson served as the chief justice of Upper Canada. In 1819, Robinson refused to extradite freedom seekers back to the United States, citing the 1772 Somerset decision.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Rowland T. Robinson was a Vermont Underground Railroad activist.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Moses Roper escaped from North Carolina by boat to New York and eventually relocated to England, before finally returning to the United States during the Civil War.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Alexander Ross was a botanist in Belleville, Canada who assisted freedom seekers from the US.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Ben Ross, Jr. was an enslaved man and the brother of Harriet Tubman. He helped his fiancée, Jane Kane, escape in a suit of men’s clothing.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Moses Ross was an enslaved man and the brother of Harriet Tubman, who escaped with his older sister’s help in 1851.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Rachel Ross (-1859) was an enslaved woman who lived in Dorchester County, Maryland, with her two children, Ben and Angerine. She was the sister of Harriet Tubman, who repeatedly tried to help her escape, but Rachel refused to leave her children behind. She died, still enslaved, in 1859.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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