Isaac Hopper : White People Who risked it all for Blacks

Thank you to Isaac Hopper and all the Quakers who risked it all for people to have a better life. Mr. Hopper goes hand and hand to my last post in my family's heart. Change for the better happens one step or moment at a time and Isaac Hopper took it. The Quaker were a society of people with liked spirit's that helped form the underground rail road. This society was known as early as 1786 in Philadelphia, where Isaac Hopper, a convert to Quakerism, established what one author called “the first operating cell of the abolitionist underground.” Hopper organized a network of safe havens and cultivated a web of informants so as to learn the plans of fugitive slave hunters. Though a tailor by trade, he also excelled at exploiting legal loopholes to win slaves’ freedom in court. Canada was a safe haven for free black slave or other people who were also enslaved.