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Free black man who helped scores of slaves escape to the North on the Underground Railroad receives
official pardonSource: Daily Mail
A free black man who risked everything to help scores of slaves escape on the Underground Railroad has received an official pardon.
Not even the threat of being sold into slavery could stop Samuel Burris from helping slaves to freedom in the 19th century.
In 1847, he was caught helping a woman named Maria Mathews try to escape from a life of slavery in Delaware.
Burris was tried and convicted of enticing slaves to escape and sentenced to seven years of servitude.
He was then auctioned off to the highest bidder at Old State House in Dover, Delaware.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300236/Free-black-man-helped-scores-slaves-escape-North-Underground-Railroad-receives-official-pardon.html
