John H. and Sarah Tibbets

John H. and Sarah Tibbets assisted fugitive slaves in their home, and John piloted them to the next safe haven. Both belonged to Neil’s Creek Anti-Slavery Society and the Anti-Slavery Regular Baptist Church at College Hill, where John served as a trustee, and he also served as a trustee of Eleutherian College. Free blacks from Madison and the surrounding area and white abolitionists also helped fugitive slaves. The Underground Railroad was a widespread network of diverse people in the nineteenth century who aided slaves escaping to freedom from the southern U.S.

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