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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: between 1860 and 1865
Item Number: 209872
Call Number: 1980.302.2
KSHS Identifier: 1980.302.2
Collections - Museum
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition - Underground Railroad
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Tintype
People - African Americans - Slavery
Places - Counties - Wabaunsee
Places - Other States - Connecticut
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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