Elizabeth and Thomas Smallwood were Underground Railroad operatives in the Washington, DC area.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Gerrit Smith (1797-1874) was an abolitionist who ran three times as the Liberty Party’s presidential nominee and served a single term as a New York congressman.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
James Lindsay Smith was a freedom seeker who escaped from Virginia in 1838 and resettled in Springfield, Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was a Black physician and abolitionist from New York.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: Abolitionist
James Somerset was an enslaved man who successfully won his freedom when his slaveholder took him to England in the Somerset decision.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Stephen was an enslaved man who escaped from Virginia slaveholder George Henderson in 1847.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Alexander Stephens (1812-1883) was a slaveholder who served as a congressman and US Senator from Georgia, and later as vice president of the Confederacy.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was an antislavery congressman from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
ROLES: Antislavery Politician // UGRR Operative
Alvan Stewart (1790-1849) was an antislavery lawyer in New York and New Jersey.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist