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The Reverend William M. Mitchell (c. 1826 to c. 1879), former overseer, abolitionist, and author of The Underground Railroad (1860), the only full-length work published on the subject while slavery was still legal in the...

William Still Historical Marker at 244 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While living here, William Still was an Underground Railroad agent who helped slaves escape and kept records so...

Harriet Tubman in failing health. Restored version of a photograph taken in 1911. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Frederick Douglass, photograph by George Kendall Warren, 1876. Frederick Douglass was one of the most important 19th-century African-American leaders who escaped slavery to become a prominent abolitionist, orator, writer...

Title page of the 1830 edition of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World.

Lydia Maria Child (l. 1802-1880), American author, abolitionist, human rights activist, and editor of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, pictured here reading a book. Photograph by John A. Whipple...

Henry Box Brown, the former slave who had himself mailed from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery on 29 March 1849. Image by Charles Stearns, frontspiece to the 1849 edition of Narrative of the...

Representation of the box in which Henry Box Brown was shipped to freedom in 1849. After his successful escape from slavery, many others were inspired to try the same. Image from the Narrative of Henry Box Brown, 1849...

Portrait of Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1818-1912), who wrote the first biography of Harriet Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869) and a follow-up volume, Harriet Tubman, Moses of her People...

Edward G. Walker (sometimes given as Edwin G. Walker, l. 1830-1901), son of abolitionist David Walker, one of the first two Black men elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature.