Richard Allen (1760-1831) was a freedom seeker who founded and served as the first bishop of the AME church in Philadelphia.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist
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Elijah Anderson was a free Black Underground railroad activist in Madison, Indiana.
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
John Anderson was a freedom seeker who escaped to Canada.
ESSAYS: Jackson
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
John Anderson (alias Phillip Nettles) was an enslaved man who escaped by boat to British Jamaica, where a local magistrate pronounced him free.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Osborne Perry Anderson was an African American involved in John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry Raid.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Henry Anthony was a freedom seeker who resettled in Florence, Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Jean Antoine was an enslaved man who escaped by boat from New Orleans to Campeche, Mexico in 1835, where authorities returned him to Louisiana.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Lord Ashburton, Alexander Baring was a British official who negotiated the 1842 Treaty of Washington under instructions not to make any concessions for the rendition of freedom seekers who reached British soil.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
John Atkinson was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen // Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Atticus was a freedom seeker whose 1837 escape by boat sparked an extradition controversy between Georgia and Maine.
ESSAYS: Baker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker