Escape from Slavery & the Underground Railroad

Fourmy, Signe

https://informationwanted.org/folders/show/12

About this folder

This folder contains ads documenting enslaved people's escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad, military service, or self-emancipation.

Ads

Frances Parker seeking information about brothers Thomas and Amiger Moton

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

July 2, 1870

https://informationwanted.org/items/show/357
Sarah Elizabeth Brooks seeking information about her mother Deborah Brown

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

June 12, 1869

https://informationwanted.org/items/show/335
Julia Smith (formerly Julia Gordey) searching for her son George G. Gordey

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

October 8, 1891

https://informationwanted.org/items/show/594
Ellen Nettleton searching for her husband George Nettleton

Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

November 10, 1855

https://informationwanted.org/items/show/1138
George T. Smith searching for his brother John W. Hines

Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

December 22, 1855

https://informationwanted.org/items/show/1139
Annetta Goodwin searching for her father Thomas Jones and several siblings

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

February 1, 1883

https://informationwanted.org/items/show/1905
Brothers Joshua Collins and Solomon Collins meet in Cincinnati after decades-long separation

The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)

October 17, 1867

https://informationwanted.org/items/show/3255