click image for close-up Although many antislavery societies had ... the North, abolitionists and antislavery sympathizers were greatly outnumbered by those who felt no aversion to slavery.

Whether born slave or free ... owners before coming to John DeBree, the man from whom Minkins would eventually escape. Minkins survived the perilous journey North to freedom and made it to ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to ... Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio ...