In the first years of the nineteenth century, most runaway slaves didn't get very far. The more than 100,000 who did almost always had the help of Quakers, free blacks, and other opponents of slavery. Such as John Byington, the first General Conference President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, who ran a station on the Underground Railroad on his farm in upstate New York. For more info, click here to read Social Work and Adventist Education: Strange Bedfellows or Kindred Spirits? by G. Victoria Jackson, Asst. Professor of Social Work, Loma Linda University [page 7 of the online PDF or p.183 in her research]
While there are no references to John Byington in the following book according to Amazon's "Search Inside This Book" feature, I'm still putting Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus Bordewich on my wishlist.
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