Seth Hunt was the clerk of the Connecticut River Railroad and used his position to aid freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Erastus Hussey was an Underground Railroad activist in Battle Creek, Michigan.
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Matilda and Nathaniel Jackson were a married couple living near Hidalgo, Texas who assisted freedom seekers on their way to Mexico.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Jameson Jenkins was a free African American and Underground Railroad activist in Springfield, Illinois.
ESSAYS: Johnson
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John and Mary Jones were abolitionists in Chicago. In 1865, John won election as a commissioner for Cook County, Illinois.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Antislavery Politician // UGRR Operative
Daniel Kaufman (1818-1902) was the last abolitionist to be convicted under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act for harboring freedom seekers. In 1847, Kaufman sheltered a group of 13 freedom seekers at his farm in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania. The freedom seekers escaped, but slaveholders sought damages from Kaufman and won in the third trial in 1852.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Absalom King was a free African American activist in Redoak, Ohio. Slave catchers and vigilance forces battled at his home in 1844, and slaveholder Edward Towers’s son was shot and killed while attempting to recapture freedom seekers taking refuge with King.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Chauncey L. Knapp served as Vermont’s secretary of state and actively assisted freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Antislavery Politician // UGRR Operative
Willis Lago was a free Black man at the center of an extradition controversy between Ohio and Kentucky state authorities. Ohio governor Salmon P. Chase refused to extradite Lago to Kentucky for aiding runaway slaves in a case eventually decided by the US Supreme Court in Kentucky v. Dennison (1861).
ESSAYS: Baker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Jermain Loguen (1813-1872) escaped from slavery in Tennessee, becoming a prolific Underground Railroad activist and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. The son of his white slaveholder, Loguen escaped from Tennessee in 1834, settling in Canada West for several years and changing his name from “Jarm Logue.” By the 1840s, Loguen relocated to Syracuse, New York, where his very public assistance to freedom seekers earned him the title of the “Underground Railroad King.”
ESSAYS: Barker // Blackett // Bordewich // Crew // Foner // Jackson // LaRoche // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative