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Alexander Ross and the Underground Railroad |
| For decades, millions of enslaved Americans thought of Canada as the Promised Land. The Underground Railroad, a clandestine organization of routes and safe houses run by hundreds of courageous people, brought tens of thousands of fugitive slaves to freedom.
One of the courageous people, Alexander Milton Ross, was a Canadian from Belleville. Dr. Ross traveled extensively through the deep south during the 1850's using his international reputation as an ornithologist to gain access to many plantations where he secretly held meetings to organize and facilitate the escape of hundreds of enslaved people. His friendship with such famous abolitionists as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and John Brown allows this performance to delve into the inspirational story that is the Underground Railroad. Time: approx. 1 ½ hrs. A place to hang a large canvas map and two tables are needed. Dumont | Grey Owl | Tecumseh | Voyageur | WWI Soldier | Native History | Home | |
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