Joshua Young (1823-1904)

He was an abolitionist and a ley figure on the Underground Railroad: "How many tales of cruelty I listened to, how many backs scarred by the slave driver’s lash and some not healed, I looked upon, how many poor scared creatures I secreted in cellars or garrets until the danger was past I cannot tell, only this I did again and again, both while living in Boston and in Burlington". He explained that the Underground Railroad was not, "any elaborate system of running off slaves, or indeed of aiding them in their flight, but simply the aiding and passing on from one well known and trusty agent to another, of the fugitives on their way to Canada, and the methods of keeps and concealment employed to secure their safety were as various as the instances of rescue".