Underground Railroad. Her escape prompted the 1844 Illinois Supreme Court case Borders v. Hayes. Richardson helped escaped slaves on the underground railroad...
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D. Richardson, American chemist Susan Richardson (Underground Railroad), an escaped slave and church co-founder (1810-1904) Susan Smith Richardson, American...
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to James and Clarissa Richardson Cannon, and she was their only daughter. Her great-grandparents, Thomas and Susan Richardson, came to Knox county from...
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Samuel Green (freedman) (section Underground Railroad)
a slave, freedman, and minister of religion. A conductor of the Underground Railroad, he was tried and convicted in 1857 of possessing a copy of the anti-slavery...
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early history of Chicago. The Jones household was a stop on the Underground Railroad and a center of abolitionist activity in the pre-Civil War era, helping...
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The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC; also sometimes called the Texas Railroad Commission, TRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry...
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Harriet Tubman (category Underground Railroad people)
antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and...
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right-of-way (ROW) of the former Massachusetts Central Railroad and former Central Massachusetts Railroad. It currently has over 60 miles (97 km) open, and...
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History of Chinese Americans (redirect from Chinese Railroad Workers)
through Canada and Latin America, in a path known as the Chinese Underground Railroad. Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco in 1873, was denied...
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[1898]. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith. Smedley, R.C. (1883). History of the Underground Railroad in Chester...
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