Silliven Cabin
This file appears in: Cabin of Jimmy and Rachel Silliven
This cabin is a purported stop for Eliza and her child as they journeyed north to Canada. Though this story cannot be confirmed through other historical sources, it is not unlike some stories that relate the Underground Railroad when some knowledge is passed by oral history.
This file appears in: Cabin of Jimmy and Rachel Silliven
Cabin of Jimmy and Rachel Silliven
Much of what we know today about the experiences of enslaved peoples on the Underground Railroad comes to us through oral testimonies given after the fact or passed down through the generations. One testimony describes Eliza traveling through…