Alexander Thomas Augusta was an African American doctor and abolitionist in Canada.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist
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George F. Badger was a North Carolina slaveholder who served as US secretary of the Navy.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Frank Baker 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
Charles Ball was a freedom seeker whose 1837 slave narrative gained wide readership among antislavery Northerners.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Henry Banks was a freedom seeker who escaped from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in February 1853.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Henry Banks was a freedom seeker who escaped from Ayler’s slave pen in Richmond in 1854 and resettled in St. Catharines, Canada.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
William Batchelder (-1854) was a US deputy marshal killed while guarding a federal hearing room during the 1854 rendition hearing for freedom seeker Anthony Burns.
ESSAYS: Finkelman
ROLES: Judicial Officer
Daniel Bell was an enslaved ironworker and Underground Railroad activist in Washington.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Henry Bibb was a freedom seeker who escaped from Kentucky, which he recounted in his Narrative (1849). Bibb resettled in Canada where he remained active in abolitionist circles.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Barker // Crew
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker