Samuel D Burris (Q490539)
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HC-PER-35218
- HC-PER-35218
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Samuel D Burris
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Statements
Slave
Abolitionist
Educational Reform Advocate
Underground Railroad Conductor
Enslaved. Free before 13th Amendment. Burris was sentenced to 14 years of enslavement after being caught as an Underground Railroad conductor, but a Quaker bought and freed him. Spent his later years in California.