Description: Photographic reproduction of a broadside advertisement dated July 12 (year unknown) offering a $150 reward for the apprehension of an escaped slave named Tom. A physical description is provided of the fugitive, as well as information about a reward for his capture and return to B. L. Boston of Fayette County, Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02706
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Fugitive slaves--Ohio--History; Fugitive slaves;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Broadside dated August 4, 1853, announcing a $100 reward for the apprehension and return of a fugitive slave named Emily who belonged to Thomas H. Williams from near Lewisburg, Mason County, Kentucky. Her physical description is provided, as well as what she is believed to be wearing, along with information about a reward for her capture and return. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02768
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Fugitive slaves--Ohio--History; Fugitive slaves;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The group of fugitive slaves seen here escaped to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad and took up residence in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Their names are listed from left to right as, back row: Mrs. Hunt, Mansfield Smith, Mrs. Seymour; front row: Stevenson, Johnson. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03237
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad
Places: Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
 

Description: George Latimer (1820-1896) was a fugitive slave who was purchased from his captors by friends in eastern Massachusetts in 1842. This cabinet card is from the Reed Studio in Lynn, Massachusetts. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03045
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Lynn (Massachusetts); Essex County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Harriet Tubman, a former fugitive slave herself, worked to free enslaved people on the Underground Railroad. Known as "the Moses of her people," she led more than 300 fugitive slaves to freedom in Canada. This portrait is from the Wilbur H. Siebert Underground Railroad collection, likely taken ca. 1890. Siebert (1866-1961) began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history in his role as a professor at the Ohio State University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03083
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913
Places: New Jersey
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of an engraved portrait depicting Josiah Henson (1789-1883), a fugitive slave who escaped to Canada. He later asserted that he was the inspiration for the character of "Uncle Tom" in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." He made a name for himself as an ambassador of sorts making several trips to the British Isles, where he even had the opportunity to meet Queen Victoria. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03235
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Ontario (Canada)
 

Description: This illustration collected by the Ohio Federal Writers' Project is titled "Twenty-eight fugitives escaping from the eastern shore of Maryland." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_003_001
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History -- Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Maryland
 

Description: Photograph of a token which reads, "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister 1838." The image of the female slave in chains surrounded by the motto was used by female antislavery societies in printed pamphlets, on letterheads and on needlework sold at antislavery fairs. The emblem served as a visual reminder of the humanity of the fettered slave. This coin, made of copper, may have been exchanged among members of antislavery groups much the same way as we might use political buttons today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03157
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Tokens
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Samuel and Jane Harper were members of a party of slaves conducted from slavery in Missouri to freedom in Canada by the famous abolitionist John Brown during the winter of 1858-59. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03236
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
 

Description: Photograph of Dr. William Edwards, who was known in slavery as William Albert Beason. He escaped from slavery in Virginia in 1848 and traveled on the Underground Railroad for two years through Pennsylvania, finally settling in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03238
Subjects: Fugitive slaves; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Amherstburg (Ontario); Canada
 

Description: Map of Underground Railroad stations, showing locations of stations around Ohio as well as major routes that fugitive slaves took on their escape to freedom. From "Pathways of Progress, A Short History of Ohio" by David Bowman, 1943. The Underground Railroad was a system of safe houses and hiding places that helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom in Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere outside of the United States. Reportedly, people living in Ohio began to help those seeking their freedom as early as the 1810s, and many prominent abolitionists from Ohio played a vital role in the Underground Railroad. Historian Wilbur Siebert believes approximately 3,000 miles of Underground Railroad trails existed in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04138
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Fugitive slaves--Ohio--History
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows Addison White, an escaped slave from Kentucky, born ca. 1821, who lived in Fleming County, Kentucky, with his owner, Daniel White. Addison is shown seated in a chair with elaborate fringe and tassels around the seat back and cushion, and is wearing formal attire. In 1856, Addison White ran away to Ohio along the Underground Railroad. He eventually made his way to Mechanicsburg in Champaign County. After several attempts by Daniel White to recapture him, the citizens of Mechanicsburg raised 950 dollars to pay for Addison's freedom, which White accepted. Addison White spent the remainder of his life as a free man in Mechanicsburg. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05129
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Abolitionists; Underground Railroad; Fugitive slaves--Ohio--History; Former slaves
Places: Mechanicsburg (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio); Kentucky