Frances and Thomas Brown were abolitionists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist
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Henry “Box” Brown (ca. 1815-1897) was a Virginia freedom seeker who arranged to have himself mailed from Richmond, Virginia to the office of the Philadelphia vigilance committee in 1849. Brown later toured as an antislavery lecturer and magician.
ESSAYS: Crew // Foner // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
John Brown was an abolitionist best known for his controversial and ill-fated raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
ESSAYS: Barker // Jackson // Johnson // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Anthony Burns was a freedom seeker who escaped from Virginia to Massachusetts, only to be captured and returned to slavery by federal authorities following a controversial and expensive rendition hearing in June 1854.
ESSAYS:Blackett //Barker //Finkelman // Grover // Oakes // Pinsker // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
Anthony Burns ( House Divided Project)
Samuel Cornish (1795-1858) was an African American minister and co-editor of Freedom’s Journal.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist
Ellen (1826-1891) and William Craft (1824-1900) rose to international fame for their daring escape aboard a train from Georgia in 1848. Ellen, who was light-skinned, posed as a male slaveholder, and William acted as her enslaved valet. The Crafts settled for several years in Boston, where they publicly defied the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, before ultimately relocating to England. There, the couple published their story, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860). After the Civil War, the Crafts returned to Reconstruction-era Georgia and opened schools for freedpeople.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Crew // Grover // Larson // Oakes // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative