Charles Torrey (1813-1846) was an abolitionist, convicted of slave stealing under Maryland law in 1844, where he died in prison two years later.
ESSAYS: Baker // Harrold // Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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John Van Zandt (1791-1847) was an Ohio abolitionist whose refusal to pay damages for assisting freedom seekers led to his conviction under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act and prompted the US Supreme Court’s decision in Jones v. Van Zandt (1847), which affirmed the constitutionality of the 1793 law.
ESSAYS: Finkelman
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Beulah Vanderhoop was a Gay Head Indigenous person who assisted freedom seeker Edinbur Randall, who escaped from a vessel that landed at Martha’s Vineyard in 1854.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Jonathan Walker (1799-1878) was a Massachusetts abolitionist convicted and branded for slave stealing in the Florida Territory in 1844.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
John Ferdinand and Sylvia Webber were a married couple living near Hidalgo, Texas who assisted freedom seekers on their way to Mexico. Sylvia had been formerly enslaved herself, though her husband John Ferdinand was white.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Delia E. Webster (1817-1904) was an abolitionist convicted in Kentucky for aiding the escape of Harriet and Lewis Hayden in 1844.
ESSAYS: Baker // Larson // Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Jacob C. White (1806-1872) was a Black barber and member of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Enoch Whittemore was a thread and spool manufacturer in Ashburnham, Massachusetts who sheltered and employed freedom seeker Josiah Thomas, his wife, and their child.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Passmore Williamson (1822-1895) was a Quaker abolitionist from Philadelphia famous for his role in the 1855 rescue of Jane Johnson.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Alanson Work was an abolitionist convicted of slave stealing in Missouri in 1841.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative