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.
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Who's Who in Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad
U and V Surnames
- Vashon, John B.
- Location: Carlisle, Pittsburgh ; Role: UGRR Stationmaster;
abolitionist
Documentation: M(artin) R. D(elany), "Obituary," Frederick Douglass Paper, 20 January 1854.
John Bethune Vashon began his abolitionist activities in Carlisle, where he was an agent for John B. Russworm's Freedom's Journal, the first widely read abolitionist newspaper in the U.S. He relocated to Pittsburgh about 1829, where he continued his abolitionist activities, including providing safe haven for freedom seekers arriving in that city. He worked closely with Martin R. Delany and John Peck. When he died, in 1854, his obituary was written by Delany.