William Grose was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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George and Joshua Hammond were among 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
Jesse Happy was an enslaved man who escaped from Kentucky in 1837 and successfully reached Canada, where authorities refused to extradite him back to the United States.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Harriet (1816-1893) and Lewis Hayden (1811-1889) fled slavery and became key leaders in Boston’s antislavery vigilance network. In 1844, the Haydens (Lewis, Harriet, and Harriet’s son from a previous marriage) escaped from Kentucky with Harriet’s five year old son Joe thanks to help from white abolitionists Calvin Fairbank and Delia Webster, who faced lengthy jail time for their role in helping the Haydens. Harriet and Lewis went to Detroit and Canada, before eventually relocating to Boston. There, the Haydens became active members of Boston’s antislavery vigilance committee, sheltering freedom seekers (most famously William and Ellen Craft) and openly defying the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. The Haydens remained active in the Underground Railroad and Republican politics through the Civil War. In 1873, Lewis Hayden won election to a single term in the Massachusetts state legislature.
ESSAYS: Barker // Blackett //Crew // Cohen // Grover // Larson // LaRoche // Miller // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Lewis and Harriet Hayden (NPS)
Thomas Hedgebeth was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Alexander Hemsley (c. 1800 – ) was a freedom seeker, reverend, interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Francis Henderson was a freedom seeker, interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Mathilde Hennes was a freedom seeker who successfully resisted slave catchers in Reynosas, Tamaulipas, Mexico in 1850.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Jerry Henry was a freedom seeker at the center of a controversial fugitive slave rescue in 1851.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was a freedom seeker, preacher, and a leading voice of the antislavery movement. Born into slavery in Maryland, Henson escaped to Canada during the 1830s, served in Britain’s Black militia, and published his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson (1849). Henson’s life story may have partially inspired the character of Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s best-selling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). Henson died in Ontario, Canada in 1883.
ESSAYS: Barker // Crew // LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker