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
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
Isaac Williams escaped from Ayler’s slave pen in Richmond, Virginia in 1854, and resettled in St. Catharines, Canada.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
John Williams was a freedom seeker from Kentucky who later resettled in Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Henry Williamson was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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