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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

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

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

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