Countless stories about the Liberty Lines (the Underground
Railroad) have been written. Still, few ever mention the African
abolitionists who established the Liberty Lines and managed the
passage of thousands of self-emancipating Africans safely to
freedom in the early 1800s. Thornton J. Alexander was an African
abolitionist who used the power of his freedom to liberate the
physical and intellectual constraints placed on African people in
colonial America. His inspirational story transcends the sufferings
of bondage. His lifetime of risks guaranteed the promises of
liberty for anyone who reached his land. He knew "Eliza Harris"
(Uncle Tom's Cabin) because she made her escape to freedom from his
property in Indiana. He allowed Bishop Paul Quinn to establish an
AME church behind his family cemetery. In 1845, he donated land to
construct the first private black college in the U.S. called Union
Literary Institute (ULI). The first African American U.S. Senator,
Hiram Revels, and his brother Willis were both educated at ULI, as
was Rev. John G. Mitchell, a co-founder of Wilberforce University.
No longer hidden in the oppressive shadows of American
abolitionists, Thornton Alexander's story of resistance, rebellion
and success has finally been reclaimed from the clutches of
invisibility.
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