Olaudah Equiano was an enslaved man who later relocated to England, where he authored an influential narrative of his life to rally British public support against the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
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Albert Fountain was an Underground Railroad operative who sheltered freedom seekers aboard his ship, the Charles T. Ford.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Lewis French was a freedom seeker who worked in a Florence, Massachusetts daguerreotype case factory.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Albert Gallatin served as the US secretary of Treasury and US ambassador to Britain.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES:
Thomas Garrett (1789-1871) was a Quaker abolitionist and Underground Railroad operative who claimed to have assisted more than 2,000 freedom seekers over multiple decades. Working with Harriet Tubman and Philadelphia vigilance leader William Still, Garrett assisted freedom seekers from his Wilmington home northward to Philadelphia. In 1848, federal prosecutors convicted the abolitionist under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act and fined him $5,400, but Garrett pledged to continue his Underground Railroad work. When Garrett died in 1871, Black residents of Wilmington came out in large numbers to pay their respects to the veteran abolitionist.
ESSAYS: Barker // Foner // Harrold // Larson / Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was an abolitionist and editor of the Liberator.
ROLES: Abolitionist
Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) abolitionist, editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, leader of New York City’s vigilance operation
ESSAYS: Blackett // Foner // Larson // Pinsker // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
William George was an enslaved man who escaped from Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1851 and resettled in St. Catharines, Canada.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Abigail and James Gibbons were Quaker abolitionists who sheltered freedom seekers in their New York City home.
ESSAYS: Foner
ROLES: UGRR Operative