Peter Martin was a free African American man living in Niagara, Canada, who witnessed the kidnapping of an enslaved woman named Chloe Cooley.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Joseph Mayo was a free African American Underground Railroad activist in Marysville, Ohio.
ESSAYS: Bordewich
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Martha and William McIntyre were antislavery activists in Adams County, Ohio who defended freedom seekers from slave catchers in 1844.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John Berry (1789-1854) and Mary Meachum (1801-1869) were free African Americans and Underground Railroad activists in St. Louis. John Berry was an African American minister in the city, while Mary continued to aid freedom seekers and promote African American education after her husband’s death.
ROLE: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Robert Miller was a free African American activist in Redoak, Ohio. Slave catchers stabbed him to death in 1844 when he resisted their efforts to search his home for freedom seekers.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: UGRR Operative
John Minkins was a free African American ship steward who assisted freedom seekers to escape from Norfolk, Virginia.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Louis Napoleon (1800-1881) was a free Black Underground Railroad operative in New York City. Working with Sydney Howard Gay, Napoleon escorted freedom seekers arriving in the city to the vigilance committee’s offices.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Mrs. Padgett operated a Washington, DC boardinghouse and worked with Charles Torrey, and Thomas and Elizabeth Smallwood to assist freedom seekers during the early 1840s.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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