Sarah Buchanon was a free Black boarding house operator in Philadelphia who worked with vigilance leader William Still to shelter freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Larson
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Samuel D. Burris (1813-1863) was a free Black man and Underground Railroad operative.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Elizabeth Buffum Chace lived in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, where she directed freedom seekers to the Providence and Worcester Railroad.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Samuel Chadwick was a New Bedford, Massachusetts merchant who helped freedom seekers escape from Virginia by boat.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Charley was an Underground Railroad activist in Chicago, Illinois.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Alanson M. Clark was a cattle and sheep breeder who employed a freedom seeker near St. Albans, Vermont.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Seth Concklin was an abolitionist who attempted to help Peter Still escape from Alabama in 1851. Concklin and Still were recaptured in Indiana, and Concklin found dead later.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: UGRR Operative
F. George Cope was a grocer and Underground Railroad activist in Louisville, Kentucky. Cope was never convicted, but spent years in prison on charges of assisting an enslaved woman named Rachel to escape to Canada.
ESSAYS: Blackett
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Ellen (1826-1891) and William Craft (1824-1900) rose to international fame for their daring escape aboard a train from Georgia in 1848. Ellen, who was light-skinned, posed as a male slaveholder, and William acted as her enslaved valet. The Crafts settled for several years in Boston, where they publicly defied the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, before ultimately relocating to England. There, the couple published their story, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860). After the Civil War, the Crafts returned to Reconstruction-era Georgia and opened schools for freedpeople.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Crew // Grover // Larson // Oakes // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Alfred Critchlow ran a daguerreotype case factory in Florence, Massachusetts and helped shelter freedom seeker Lewis French, one of his employees, from slave catchers.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative