Abolitionists rally at the Cazenovia Convention in upstate New York on August 21 to protest the proposed Fugitive Slave Act. Over 2,000 abolitionists and 50 freedom seekers attend, as Frederick Douglass and other speakers vow to resist slave catchers with force.
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US authorities recapture freedom seeker Margaret Garner and her family near Cincinnati, Ohio on January 28. Rather than see her family returned to slavery, Garner kills her youngest child before federal officers seize her. The US government eventually returns Garner and her family to slavery under the Fugitive Slave Act, but not before the tragic case shocks more Northerners into speaking out against slavery.
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George Brown was the publisher of the Globe and Mail and a supporter of antislavery activism in Canada.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES:
John L. Brown was a Maine abolitionist convicted for helping a freedom seeker in Charleston, South Carolina.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
William Wells Brown was a freedom seeker who escaped from Missouri in 1834 and became a celebrated author and speaker on the abolitionist lecture circuit.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Barker // Crew // Johnson
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker // UGRR Operative
Henry Clay Bruce and Pauline Bruce were an enslaved couple in Missouri who escaped from slavery in 1864.
ESSAY: Johnson
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Andrew Bryan founded of the one of the first African American churches in Savannah, Georgia.
ESSAYS: LaRoche
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James Burr was an abolitionist convicted of slave stealing in Missouri in 1841.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Benjamin Butler was a US general during the Civil War who developed the contraband decision.
ESSAYS: Manning
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