Peter Pennington was enslaved by Turpin Wright in Dorchester County, Maryland. He successfully ran away with Tubman's help in November, 1856. Pennington later settled in Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario.
Winnebar, or William, Johnson, ran away with Tubman's help in 1854. He finally settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Three of his sisters were later sold by Harrington; only one managed to find her way to freedom before the Civil War. Winnebar spent years trying to locate his two other sisters. It is not known if he ever found them.
Thomas Elliot and Denard [Denwood] Hughes were friends of Tubman's. Enslaved by Pritchet Meredith of Bucktown, Maryland, Tom and Denard ran away with six other enslaved people and they later became known as the Dover Eight. Though Tubman did not accompany this group to freedom, they were given aid by Tubman's father, Ben Ross, when the group sought shelter with him on their first night on the run. Betrayed and then nearly captured in Dover, Delaware on their way to Thomas Garrett in Wilmington, the Dover Eight successfully broke free, racing to freedom in one of the most dramatic escapes stories ever told.
Just a small taste of some of the many remarkable liberation stories found in the pages of "Bound." Read more about the lives of these freedom seekers and others, and how Tubman's actions helped spark a decade of turmoil in Dorchester County, Maryland, in "Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero."
