Reuben H. Walworth (1788-1867) was chancellor of New York and declared the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional in Jack v. Martin (1835).
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
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Samuel Ringgold Ward was a freedom seeker, African American minister, and abolitionist writer and lecturer.
ESSAYS: Barker // Crew // LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
John Ferdinand and Sylvia Webber were a married couple living near Hidalgo, Texas who assisted freedom seekers on their way to Mexico. Sylvia had been formerly enslaved herself, though her husband John Ferdinand was white.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Delia E. Webster (1817-1904) was an abolitionist convicted in Kentucky for aiding the escape of Harriet and Lewis Hayden in 1844.
ESSAYS: Baker // Larson // Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Anna Maria Weems was an enslaved woman who escaped from Washington, DC with help from abolitionist Dr. Ellwood Harvey from Washington, DC by disguising herself as a chauffeur.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
David West escaped from King and Queen County, Virginia and reached St. Catharines, Canada in 1854.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Addison White (ca. 1821-1885) was a freedom seeker whose dramatic rescue led to a standoff between Ohio state officials and federal authorities. White resisted arrest under the Fugitive Slave Act in May 1857 and escaped with the help of Mechanicsburg, Ohio residents, the case gained national attention as Northern communities increasingly flouted the federal law. During the Civil War, White served in the 54th Massachusetts and spent the rest of his life in Ohio.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Freedom Seeker