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  • Lewis Tappan (1788 - 1873)
    Lewis Tappan Tappan was a New York abolitionist who worked to achieve the freedom of the illegally enslaved Africans of the Amistad. Contacted by Connecticut abolitionists soon after the Amis...
  • Arthur Tappan (1786 - 1865)
    Arthur Tappan Tappan was an American abolitionist. He was the brother of U.S. Senator Benjamin Tappan, and abolitionist Lewis Tappan. Biography Born in Northampton, Massachusetts to a...
  • Horace Ensign (1793 - 1880)
    He was the son of William Ensign and Mary Wadhams. His father, William Ensign, a native of Massachusetts, was a large landowner, and for some time resided at Dalton, Berkshire county, Mass., where he ...
  • John Jones (1816 - 1879)
    John Jones Jones was an American abolitionist, businessman, civil rights leader, and philanthropist. He was born in North Carolina and later lived in Tennessee. Arriving in Chicago with thr...
  • Horace Morris (1832 - 1897)
    Horace Morris was highly prominent and influential in the Black community of Louisville, Kentucky, particularly following the Civil War. He was born in the city and spent part of his childhood in Cinci...

The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.

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