Charles Torrey (1813-1846) was an abolitionist, convicted of slave stealing under Maryland law in 1844, where he died in prison two years later.
ESSAYS: Baker // Harrold // Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Edward Towers was a slaveholder. When freedom seekers escaped from his farm, Towers hired slave catchers who created mayhem in the town of Redoak, Ohio as they searched for the freedom seekers. Tower’s son was shot and killed in the clash.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
James Townsend was one of three freedom seekers whose May 1861 escape to US lines at Fort Monroe triggered the US army’s contraband decision.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Justo Treviño was a Mexican judge who investigated a pair of Louisiana slave catchers who attempted to recapture freedom seeker Mathilde Hennes in 1850.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Judicial Officer
William Troy was an African American minister in Windsor, Canada.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) was a pivotal figure in the Underground Railroad, beginning with her own escape from slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1849. Tubman returned multiple times to lead others to freedom, while becoming active in antislavery circles and collaborating with vigilance leaders like William Still in Philadelphia to assist freedom seekers. During the Civil War, Tubman served as a guide for US forces in South Carolina. Her legendary reputation as “Moses” grew even as Tubman lived much of the rest of her life in poverty.
ESSAYS: Barker // Blackett // Bordewich // Cohen // Crew // Foner // Larson // Newby-Alexander // Pinsker
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Harriet Tubman (House Divided Project)
John Van Zandt (1791-1847) was an Ohio abolitionist whose refusal to pay damages for assisting freedom seekers led to his conviction under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act and prompted the US Supreme Court’s decision in Jones v. Van Zandt (1847), which affirmed the constitutionality of the 1793 law.
ESSAYS: Finkelman
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Beulah Vanderhoop was a Gay Head Indigenous person who assisted freedom seeker Edinbur Randall, who escaped from a vessel that landed at Martha’s Vineyard in 1854.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Jonathan Walker (1799-1878) was a Massachusetts abolitionist convicted and branded for slave stealing in the Florida Territory in 1844.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative