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Madison County Man Gerrit Smith Risked It All To Help Others In The Underground Railroad
Gerrit Smith was an abolitionist who was born in 1797 in New York. He was a wealthy man who used his wealth and influence to help hundreds of Africans move through New York into Canada on the underground railroad.