Enslavementto
freedom
People involved with the story of Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad network, including activists, freedom seekers, station masters, conductors, financiers, lawyers, slave hunters, abolitionists, anti-slavery and pro-slavery adherents, politicians, heroes, villains, and more.
Study Areas
Who's Who in Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad
E Surnames
- Erwin, James
- Location: New Brighton, Beaver County ; Role: UGRR activist
Documentation: Peggy Jean Townsend and Charles Walker Townsend III, "Milo Adams Townsend and Social Movements of the Nineteenth Century," published by Beaver County History Online, http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/booklengthdocuments/AMilobook/3Bradford.html, accessed 8 October 2006.
Virginia born machinist James Erwin actively aided the active New Brighton (see Townsend, Benjamin) Underground Railroad network. Erwin was one of several New Brighton citizens that submitted a formal protest of the 1850 Fugitive Slave law to their congressmen.