Edward Hicks was a freedom seeker interviewed by abolitionist Benjamin Drew in Canada during the 1850s.
ESSAYS: Cohen
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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Simon Hill was a freedom seeker from Appomattox County, Virginia, interviewed by Sydney Howard Gay in New York.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Isaac was a freedom seeker at the center of an extradition controversy between New York and Virginia authorities in 1839.
ESSAYS: Baker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Isaac was a freedom seeker who escaped from Virginia in 1837, but later returned to assist his wife and daughter to freedom in 1846.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) was a freedom seeker best known today for her gripping memoir recounting the cruel treatment and sexual abuse she suffered under slavery. Born into slavery in coastal Edenton, North Carolina, a teenaged Jacobs resisted her slaveholders’ sexual advances by beginning a relationship with another white man, Samuel Sawyer. Sawyer and Jacobs had two children, Joseph and Louisa, whom Sawyer purchased but did not liberate, instead sending Louisa north to work as a domestic servant. After hiding for more than seven years in her grandmother’s home, Jacobs escaped northward by boat in 1842 in hopes of reuniting with her children. Jacobs moved throughout New England until New Bedford, Massachusetts abolitionist Cornelia Grinnell Willis purchased Jacobs’s freedom in 1852. Jacobs went on to write her memoir, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1860), making her one of the first women to author a slave narrative in the United States. During the Civil War, Jacobs spearheaded efforts to provide humanitarian aid and education to freedpeople in Washington, DC and Georgia, before ultimately settling in Washington, where she died in 1897.
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
Joe was an enslaved man who escaped from Octave Delahoussaye’s sugar plantation in Louisiana in 1822, but slave catchers recaptured him before he could reach Mexico.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
John and his father Peter were enslaved people living in the Mexican province of Téjas who escaped to San Antonio de Béxar and secured their freedom in 1832.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Charles Johnson was a freedom seeker captured in Florida with abolitionist Jonathan Walker.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Jane Johnson (-1872) was a freedom seeker at the center of a controversial 1855 rescue case when slaveholder John Wheeler attempted to travel through Philadelphia with Johnson and her two sons, Daniel and Isaiah. Philadelphia vigilance leaders William Still and Passmore Williamson assisted the Johnsons and later faced charges for their involvement.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Jane Kane was an enslaved woman who escaped with the help of her fiancée, Ben Ross, Jr., the brother of Harriet Tubman.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker