Personal Stories
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a slave that escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, she had risked her life multiple times to help slaves escape. She is the most well-known “conductor” because of the number of slaves she had helped escape through the Underground Railroad.
William Still
William Still worked in an office where all the slaves that escaped through the Underground Railroad would go and once they reached his office they would be logged in a book so that he could keep a record of the slaves that escaped. After they got logged he would provide them with necessities like housing and food.
John Brown
John Brown was also a conductor on the Underground Railroad and a strong abolitionist who didn’t support slavery. John Brown was known for helping slaves escape the North to Canada because slaves that escaped were still able to be caught by slave catchers that came from the South.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was known as the leader of the Underground Railroad. He had helped a lot of runaway slaves get away to a safer place. He was an advocate for women’s rights, specifically the right to vote. An interesting fact is that Douglass himself did not quite know his own date of birth. Frederick Douglass’ mother was an enslaved black woman, but his father was white and of European descent