Daniel Bell was an enslaved ironworker and Underground Railroad activist in Washington.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
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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
Ben Blackburn was a freedom seeker, interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Lucie (also Ruthie) and Thornton Blackburn were two enslaved people in Kentucky who successfully escaped to Detroit and later Windsor, Canada. British authorities in Canada refused to extradite them back to the United States.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Susan Borders was an enslaved woman living in Illinois, where slaveholder Andrew Borders held her and her three sons under indenture contracts. Borders and her children escaped in 1842 with assistance from Illinois’s Underground Railroad network, but later slave catchers recaptured them. Borders secured her freedom in court, but her children were returned to indentured servitude.
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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
Noah Buley was one of four freedom seekers who escaped from Maryland slaveholder Edward Gorsuch and resisted recapture during the Christiana resistance in 1851.
ESSAYS: Jackson // Oakes // Pinsker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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)
Charley was an enslaved man who provided military intelligence to US forces in North Carolina.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Chloe Cooley was an enslaved woman living in Ontario, Canada. Her 1793 kidnapping by a US slaveholder galvanized support for Upper Canada’s gradual abolition law.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker