Frederick Douglass, a former slave from New York, who helped 400 slaves make their way to Canada. He used to hide fugitives in his home. Reverend Jermain Loguen, from Syracuse, helped around 1500 slaves. Robert Purvis, an escaped slave from Philadelphia, who formed the Vigilance Committee in 1838. Josiah Henson, a former slave, and railroad operator who opened the Dawn Institute in 1842 in Ontario where he helped the escaped slaves to learn work skills.
Some other names are escaped slave Louis Napoleon, John Parker, and William Smith who kept the clearest accounts on Underground Railroad activity and he kept it hidden until after the Civil War.