Caroline Quarlls was a freedom seeker from St. Louis who escaped by boat in 1843.
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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Rachel was an enslaved woman living in Louisville, Kentucky who escaped in 1856 with the assistance of Louisville grocer F. George Cope.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Edinbur Randall escaped from Jacksonville, Florida by boat in 1854 and escaped to Martha’s Vineyard, where African Americans and Indigenous people sheltered him. Randall reportedly worked at New Bedford under the alias Edgar Jones.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Moses Roper escaped from North Carolina by boat to New York and eventually relocated to England, before finally returning to the United States during the Civil War.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Ben Ross, Jr. was an enslaved man and the brother of Harriet Tubman. He helped his fiancée, Jane Kane, escape in a suit of men’s clothing.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Moses Ross was an enslaved man and the brother of Harriet Tubman, who escaped with his older sister’s help in 1851.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Rachel Ross (-1859) was an enslaved woman who lived in Dorchester County, Maryland, with her two children, Ben and Angerine. She was the sister of Harriet Tubman, who repeatedly tried to help her escape, but Rachel refused to leave her children behind. She died, still enslaved, in 1859.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Thomas Sims was a freedom seeker famously returned to slavery from Boston under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Sims stowed abroad a ship from Savannah, Georgia to Boston, where federal authorities captured him in April 1851. Later during the Civil War, Sims escaped with his family to US lines and toured as an abolitionist lecturer.
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
James Lindsay Smith was a freedom seeker who escaped from Virginia in 1838 and resettled in Springfield, Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
James Somerset was an enslaved man who successfully won his freedom when his slaveholder took him to England in the Somerset decision.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker