Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (Harriet Be Found. Iam Underground Like Tubman)

female, deceased (1913) (Dorchester)
freedom fighter, stood up for what she believed in, inspiration to women everywhere, African-American, African-American history, wartime spy…undergroundrailroad
Harriet Tubman (1820 - 1913) escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and traveled north. She then helped hundreds of other slaves flee to the north to...
Employment: …conductor - Underground Railroad
William Still

William Still

male, deceased (1902)
African American, writer, African-American, abolitionist, American, undergroundrailroad
William Still (November 1819 or October 7, 1821 - July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad,...
Levi Coffin

Levi Coffin

male, deceased (1877)
slavecatcher, home, From Cincinnati, Educator, slave, abolitionist…undergroundrailroad
Levi Coffin (October 28, 1798-September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, educator, and abolitionist. Coffin was born in Greensboro, North...
Harriet Beecher Stowe House

Harriet Beecher Stowe House

female
Congregationalist, Registered Historic Places in Ohio, Lane Seminary, Museums in Ohio, Lane Theological Seminary, Uncle Tom's Cabin…undergroundrailroad
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House was once the residence of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), she was the influential antislavery author who wrote...
Thomas Garrett

Thomas Garrett

male, deceased (1871)
Drexel Hill, undergroundrailroad, american civil war, south, slave, slavery
Thomas Garrett was an abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War. Garrett was born into a...

John Rankin

male, deceased (1886)
Presbyterian, from Ohio, american civil war, minister, abolitionist, American…undergroundrailroad
John Rankin (February 4, 1793 - March 18, 1886) was a Presbyterian minister, educator and abolitionist. Upon moving to Ripley, Ohio in 1822, he...
John Parker

John Parker

male, deceased (1900)
African American, inventor, slave, African-American history, abolitionist, American…undergroundrailroad
John P. Parker (1827 - February 4, 1900) was an African American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist who secretly participated in the...
Margaret Garner

Margaret Garner

female
Parents who murdered their child, Slave catcher, Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Abolitionism, undergroundrailroad, American
Margaret Garner was a slave in pre-Civil War America notorious - or celebrated - for killing her own daughter rather than see the child returned to...
Robert Purvis

Robert Purvis

male, deceased (1898)
Amherst College, African American, abolitionist, American, antebellum, undergroundrailroad
Robert Purvis (August 4, 1810 - April 15, 1898) was an antebellum African American abolitionist in the United States. Purvis was born in...
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

female, deceased (1998)
Wellesley College alumni, undergroundrailroad, Centenarian, the miami herald, American, environmentalist
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7 1890 - May 14 1998) was an eminent American conservationist and writer. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she was a...