{"id":4082,"date":"2023-04-16T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:30:40","slug":"fairbank-calvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/fairbank-calvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbank, Calvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Calvin Fairbank<\/strong> (1816-1898) was a Methodist minister and Underground Railroad operative convicted in Kentucky for aiding the 1844 <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1844-lewis-and-harriet-hayden-escape\/\">escape of Harriet and Lewis Hayden<\/a> along with school teacher Delia Webster and then convicted again for a second offense in 1851.\u00a0 He ended up serving a total of seventeen years in Kentucky state prison before his release in 1864.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/epilogue-blackett\/\">Blackett<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/state-laws-and-freedom-seeking-baker\/\">Baker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/women-on-the-underground-railroad-larson\/\">Larson<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/foreword-miller\/\">Miller<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/introduction-pinsker\/\">Pinsker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Sinha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/ugrr-operative\/\">UGRR Operative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2986\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Calvin-Fairbank.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2986\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2986\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Calvin-Fairbank.png\" alt=\"engraving man head\" width=\"670\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Calvin-Fairbank.png 670w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Calvin-Fairbank-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Fairbank served a total of seventeen years in Kentucky prison for &#8220;slave stealing&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/19167\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Fairbank (1816-1898) was a Methodist minister and Underground Railroad operative convicted in Kentucky for aiding the 1844 escape of Harriet and Lewis Hayden along with school teacher Delia Webster and then convicted again for a second offense in 1851.\u00a0 He ended up serving a total of seventeen years in Kentucky state prison before his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23500,23487,23508,23501,23481,23512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackett","category-larson","category-miller","category-pinsker","category-sinha","category-ugrr-operative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}