Letter from Albert McFadden to Wilbur Siebert, August 5, 1893

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Title

Letter from Albert McFadden to Wilbur Siebert, August 5, 1893

Subject

Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Underground railroad; Abolitionist

Description

This letter written by Albert McFadden, one of the first abolitionists in Wayne County and a close informant of the head of the Underground Railroad in Wayne County, to Wilbur Siebert, an Underground Railroad historian based in Columbus, Ohio, discusses McFadden’s knowledge of the Underground Railroad in Wayne County. The letter details the individuals that were crucial to the beginning of the Underground Railroad in Wayne County. McFadden describes his experiences with others—particularly politicians—as he was attempting to get Wayne County to be a more open area for fugitive slaves.

McFadden and others who were present during the beginning of Wayne County’s anti-slavery movement were integral to the success of the Underground Railroad and freeing enslaved people. They spoke out against a topic that had been taken as the norm for over a century and was a part of the United States Constitution. In the end, citizens of the North like McFadden were a driving force behind the end of slavery.
Use Ohio Social Studies Standard for Grade Eight 11 (Disputes over the nature of federalism, complicated by economic developments in the United States, resulted in sectional issues, including slavery, which led to the American Civil War) and 16 (Cultural biases, stereotypes and prejudices had social, political and economic consequences for minority groups and the population as a whole) for integration into the classroom.

Creator

Albert McFadden

Source

Ohio Memory Project, Wilbur H. Siebert Collection http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/siebert/id/10160/rec/3 MSS116AV BOX59 11OH 074

Publisher

Unknown

Date

1893-08-05

Rights

In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Relation

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection

Format

PDF Document

Language

eng

Type

Text

Identifier

Albert_McFadden_001

Coverage

Wooster, Ohio; Wayne County
Underground Railroad

Files

10160.pdf

Citation

Albert McFadden, “Letter from Albert McFadden to Wilbur Siebert, August 5, 1893,” Wayne County Ohio History, accessed March 28, 2024, https://woosterdigital.org/wayneohiohistory/items/show/2.

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