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.
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Study Areas
Enslavement
Anti-Slavery
Free Persons of Color
Underground Railroad
The Violent Decade
US Colored Troops
Civil War
Year of Jubilee (1863) |
Who's Who in Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad
I Surnames
- Ingraham, Edward D.
- Location: Philadelphia; Role: Federal Fugitive Slave Commissioner
Documentation: American Anti-Slavery Society, The Fugitive Slave Law and Its
Victims, Anti-Slavery Tracts #13, 1856.
Philadelphia lawyer appointed as United States Commissioner to hear cases
under the Federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. When Harrisburg's
Richard McAllister resigned from
the office of slave commissioner sometime in the mid 1850's, slave catchers were
forced to take their captives to Philadelphia to appear before Commissioner
Ingraham. It was Edward D. Ingraham who issued to Maryland slave owner
Edward Gorsuch the warrants for the seizure of four fugitives, said to be hiding
in Pennsylvania, that led to the fight at William Parker's house in Christiana.
Ingraham died in late 1854.
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