David Ruggles (1810-1849) was a Black abolitionist who founded the New York Committee of Vigilance in 1835, which organized aid to freedom seekers passing through New York City. In 1838, Ruggles assisted Frederick Douglass during his escape and advised Douglass to journey to New Bedford.
ESSAYS: Barker //Crew // Foner // Grover // Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Antonio López de Santa Anna was the president of Mexico whose centralizing policies threatened slavery and propelled proslavery Anglo-American settlers in Texas to declare independence in 1836.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Edward Sayres was a seaman convicted for aiding the escape of 77 freedom seekers from Washington, DC aboard the Pearl in 1848.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was an antislavery politician who served as New York governor (1838-42), US senator from New York (1849-61), and US secretary of state (1861-69).
ESSAYS: Baker // Oakes // Sinha
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
William Seward, c. 1845 (House Divided Project)
Mary Ann Shadd (later Cary) was an African American abolitionist based in Canada and editor of The Provincial Freeman.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist
Mary Ann Shadd House Divided Project)
Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861) was a Massachusetts Supreme Court chief justice who denied slaveholders the right of transit through the state.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
John Graves Simcoe served as the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada and spearheaded the push to adopt gradual abolition in the province in 1793.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
Thomas Sims was a freedom seeker famously returned to slavery from Boston under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Sims stowed abroad a ship from Savannah, Georgia to Boston, where federal authorities captured him in April 1851. Later during the Civil War, Sims escaped with his family to US lines and toured as an abolitionist lecturer.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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