Lewis Tappan (1788-1873) was an antislavery leader and philanthropist from New York.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: Abolitionist
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John Thomas was an Underground Railroad activist who assisted freedom seekers from his home near Azalia, Indiana.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Josiah Thomas escaped slavery with his wife and their child and reached Boston, before settling in Ashburnham, Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
George Thompson was an abolitionist convicted of slave stealing in Missouri in 1841
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
James L. Thompson was an Underground Railroad activist in Canton, Indiana.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John W. Thompson was a freedom seeker who escaped from Maryland in 1842 and found work in New Bedford, Massachusetts aboard a whaling vessel.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Brown Thurston was a Portland, Maine printer who assisted freedom seekers to Canada by coasting vessels and along the Grand Trunk Railroad.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Harriet Tillison was a free Black woman in Kent County, Maryland accused of assisting freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John Todd was an Underground Railroad activist in southern Indiana.
ESSAYS: Bordewich
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Robert Toombs (1810-1885) was a slaveholder who served as a US Senator from Georgia and later as secretary of state for the Confederacy.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Proslavery Politician