{"id":1552,"date":"2015-07-15T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2024-02-01T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:24:28","slug":"underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/2015\/07\/15\/underground-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Statistical Gateway<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Enslaved population in 1840: roughly 2 million<\/li>\n<li>Enslaved population in 1860: roughly 4 million<\/li>\n<li>Estimated number of antebellum slave sale transactions: 2 million<\/li>\n<li>Ratio of antebellum slave marriages broken apart by sale: \u00bc<\/li>\n<li>Annual temporary escapes from slavery (\u201claying out\u201d): 100,000<\/li>\n<li>Annual attempts at permanent escapes from slavery: 1,000<\/li>\n<li>Documented recaption (kidnapping) efforts across North during 1850s: 150<\/li>\n<li>Documented individual fugitive rendition cases\u00a0between 1850-1861: \u00a0200<\/li>\n<li>Total number of formal federal rendition hearings between 1850-1861: \u00a0125<\/li>\n<li>Number of rendition hearings in New England states after 1854: \u00a00<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of nation\u2019s rendition hearings held in Ohio 1855-1861: 75<\/li>\n<li>Vigilance committee records for successful escapes during 1850s:\u00a0 3,000+<\/li>\n<li>Documented vigilance-led resistance efforts during 1850s: \u00a080<\/li>\n<li>Total casualties from antebellum resistance efforts: \u00a0100s<\/li>\n<li>Number of UGRR operatives killed in free states: 0<\/li>\n<li>Number of freedom seekers killed in free states:\u00a0 1<\/li>\n<li>Number of slaveholders or slave catchers killed in free states:\u00a0 3<\/li>\n<li>Number of UGRR operatives fined or imprisoned in free states: \u00a0about 10-12<\/li>\n<li>People imprisoned for slave-stealing in South, 1840s-50s: 200+<\/li>\n<li>Longest sentence issued for UGRR conviction under federal law: \u00a03 months<\/li>\n<li>Longest imprisonment for UGRR operative in a slave state: \u00a017 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistical Gateway Enslaved population in 1840: roughly 2 million Enslaved population in 1860: roughly 4 million Estimated number of antebellum slave sale transactions: 2 million Ratio of antebellum slave marriages broken apart by sale: \u00bc Annual temporary escapes from slavery (\u201claying out\u201d): 100,000 Annual attempts at permanent escapes from slavery: 1,000 Documented recaption (kidnapping) efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}