Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was a Quaker abolitionist and suffragist in Philadelphia.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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Charles Nalle was a Virginia freedom seeker rescued from federal custody in Troy, New York in April 1860.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Charles Nelson was a freedom seeker. Vermont’s secretary of state Chauncey L. Knapp and Underground Railroad activist Rowland T. Robinson assisted Nelson to freedom.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Thomas Page was a freedom seeker from Norfolk, Virginia, interviewed by William Still in Philadelphia.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Eliza and William Parker (1821-1891) were freedom seekers who organized vigilance forces against a federal posse in the Christiana resistance.
ESSAYS: Finkelman // Jackson // Pinsker // Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
John Parker (1827-1900) was a freedom seeker and Underground Railroad operative in Ripley, Ohio.
ESSAYS: Churchill // Miller // Sinha //
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
John Parker House, Ripley, OH (National Park Service)
Winnie Patsy was a freedom seeker who escaped from Norfolk, Virginia with her three-year-old daughter Elizabeth.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Patty was an enslaved woman rescued from Loudon County, Virginia by Leonard Grimes in 1839.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
James W.C. Pennington (1807-1870) was a freedom seeker and African American minister also known as James Pembroke.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Crew // LaRoche
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
James W.C. Pennington (NYPL)
John Price was a Kentucky freedom seeker famously rescued from federal custody by a group that included faculty and students from Oberlin College in September 1858.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Freedom Seeker