Monument commemorating Oberlin College's ties to the Underground Railroad, designed by Oberlin College senior Cameron Armstrong and completed in 1977. Many Oberlin faculty and students were involved in the 1858 rescue of fugitive slave John Price. 

Monument depicting the rescue of fugitive slave Jerry Henry on October 1, 1851 in Syracuse, New York. Black and white abolitionists stormed a federal hearing room and rescued Henry from proceedings under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, enabling Henry to make his way to Canada. 

Abolitionists gathered at Cazenovia, New York on August 21-22, 1850 to protest the proposed new Fugitive Slave Act then being debated in Congress. Frederick Douglass (seated) and Gerrit Smith (standing, behind table) headlined the gathering. Sisters Emily and Mary Edmonson (standing, wearing plaid shaws, on either side of Douglass) had gained fame in abolitionist circles for their involvement in the attempted mass escape from Washington, DC aboard the Pearl two years earlier. After that escape attempt failed, abolitionists had raised the money to purchase their freedom. Photograph by Ezra Greenleaf Weld. 

Composite image showing the leaders of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee during the 1850s. Leaders included Dickinson class of 1828 alumnus James Miller McKim (top left), N.W. Depee (top center), Charles Wise (top right), Delaware Quaker Thomas Garrett (center left), Philadelphia's Robert Purvis (center right), Black barber Jacob C. White (bottom left), Quaker abolitionist Passmore Williamson (bottom center), and William Still (bottom right).

Photograph showing the controversial abolitionist John Doy (seated) and the group of Kansas abolitionists who rescued him from a Missouri jail in July 1859. An associate of John Brown, Doy had attempted to escort a group of Missouri fugitive slaves northward through Kansas in January 1859. But slave catchers overtook the group, reenslaved the fugitives, and hauled Doy back to Missouri, where authorities convicted him under the state's slave stealing statutes. Lawrence, Kansas abolitionists forcefully rescued Doy from prison in July. Doy later published a Narrative (1860) detailing his capture and rescue, and eventually Missouri governor Thomas Fletcher pardoned the fugitive abolitionist in 1865.