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Where possible, we have named underground railroad sites after
both husband and wife. Only men's names appeared in the minutes
of Oswego County anti-slavery society meetings or in calls for
anti-slavery political conventions, and men generally owned the
property itself. Many women were active abolitionists, however.
They signed anti-slavery petitions, for example. And while men
may have owned the houses, women ran them. Finding fugitives
seems to have been men's work, but women almost certainly fed
and clothed them. |
