Road to Freedom

Overview

Locale: Home of John Brown in Osawatomie, Kansas John Brown, the most fanatical of all Abolitionists, guided comparatively few slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, but the plight of the escaped slaves who used the “underground” was cleverly publicized to him to increase Anti-Slavery sentiment. Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act became so strong that the Act was practically nullified in some Northern states.