Jacob Gibbs was a free African American and Underground Railroad activist in Baltimore.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: UGRR Operative
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Ulysses S. Grant was a US general during the Civil War who later served as the 18th president of the United States, overseeing a critical period of Reconstruction.
ESSAYS: Barker
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Gilman Jones 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
Shepard Mallory was one of three freedom seekers whose May 1861 escape to US lines at Fort Monroe triggered the US army’s contraband decision.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Myrtilla Miner was a Northern schoolteacher who established a school for African American girls in Washington, DC and assisted several African American children to escape.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: Abolitionist // UGRR Operative
Solomon Moseby was an enslaved man who escaped from Kentucky to Canada in 1837. After a sheriff arrested Moseby, more than 200 African Americans from Niagara, Canada rescued him.
ESSAYS: Barker
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
Christopher Nicholson was a freedom seeker who escaped from Fredericksburg, Virginia and resettled in St. Catharines, Canada.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
José de las Piedras was a Mexican army officer who returned three freedom seekers to Louisiana in 1832.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
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