John W. Jones was as ... Living in the north did not mean Jones had it easy. He could not vote. He still shared sidewalks with former slave-owners. When he asked to receive an education at the ...

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 ...