William Chaplin (1796-1871) was an abolitionist and Underground Railroad operative arrested and imprisoned for four months by Washington, DC authorities.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Rufus Choate (1799-1859) was an antislavery lawyer from Massachusetts.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
James Freeman Clark was a Boston resident who lived next door to antislavery activists George and Susan Hilliard.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES:
Thomas Clarkson was a British abolitionist who spearheaded the campaign to end the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist
Catherine (1803-1881) and Levi Coffin (1798-1877) were a Quaker couple renowned for their Underground Railroad activism. The couple relocated from North Carolina to Indiana in 1826, where they assisted more than 2,000 freedom seekers over two decades. In 1847, the Coffins moved to Cincinnati and continued their Underground Railroad work. During the Civil War, the couple turned their attention to aiding wartime freedom seekers in contraband camps. By the time Levi Coffin died in 1877, he had come to be known as the “President of the Underground Railroad” in recognition for his prolific aid to freedom seekers. Catherine, who had been crucial to those same efforts, died in 1881.
ESSAYS: Blackett // Barker // Bordewich // Churchill // Crew // Larson
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
John Colborne served as lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, where he welcomed African Americans fleeing slavery and discrimination in the United States.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Antislavery Politician
John Anthony Copeland was a free African American abolitionist hanged for his role in John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry raid.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: UGRR Operative
George DeBaptiste was a free Black Underground activist in Madison, Indiana.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Manuel Luis del Fierro was a resident of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, where he defended his maid, freedom seeker Mathilde Hennes, from Louisiana slave catchers.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Rufus Elmore ran a wholesale shoe shop in Springfield, Massachusetts and employed freedom seeker James Lindsay Smith.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative