George DeBaptiste
George DeBaptiste, c. 1870 (Detroit Public Library)
George DeBaptiste, c. 1870 (Detroit Public Library)
Harper's Weekly, December 7, 1861, p. 775.
"Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina," photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan, ca. 1862.
Multiple generations of a family of contrabands posed outside a cabin on the former plantation of slaveholder J.J. Smith, near Beaufort, South Carolina.
Engraving from Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad: Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents (Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clark & Co., 1880.), accessible online at Documenting the American South
Underground Railroad activist Catherine Coffin, the wife of Levi Coffin.
Monument in Alexandria, Virginia to sisters Emily and Mary Edmonson, who attempted to escape from slavery in Washington, DC along with 75 other fugitive slaves aboard the Pearl in 1848. Recaptured, abolitionists contributed funds to purchase the sisters' freedom. Sculptor Erik Blome completed the monument in 2010.