A tintype of an unidentified African American woman. This photo was passed down through generations of the Platt family. Jireh Platt was an active abolitionist in Mendon, Illinois. His sons Enoch and Luther, members of the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony, settled in Wabaunsee County, Kansas Territory, where they operated a station on the Underground Railroad. The Platts may have helped this woman escape to freedom. The fact that she is wearing a wedding ring is significant, as slaves weren't legally allowed to marry.
Date: 1860
Item Number: 209872
Call Number: 1980.302.2, DA/Tintype
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 209872
Collections - Museum
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition - Underground Railroad
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Tintypes
People - African Americans - Slavery
Places - Counties - Wabaunsee
Places - Other States - Connecticut
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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