Elijah Anderson was a free Black Underground railroad activist in Madison, Indiana.
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
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Osborne Perry Anderson was an African American involved in John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry Raid.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Daniel Bell was an enslaved ironworker and Underground Railroad activist in Washington.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Jacob Bigelow was a white attorney from Massachusetts who assisted freedom seekers to escape from Washington, DC.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John Blevens was an abolitionist convicted of slave stealing in Virginia.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
William Ingersoll Bowditch was an abolitionist who assisted freedom seekers from Boston.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Lawrence Brainerd was a US senator from Vermont and investor in steamboats and railroads who lived in St. Albans, Vermont, where he helped freedom seekers escape by steamboat and railroad north.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Antislavery Politician // UGRR Operative
J.M. Brown was an Underground Railroad activist in New Orleans and an AME bishop.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John Brown was an abolitionist best known for his controversial and ill-fated raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
ESSAYS: Barker // Jackson // Johnson // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative