Biography
Hannah Toliver was a free Black woman arrested in 1864 for violating Kentucky's law against "enticing a slave," for aiding the escape of an enslaved man held by William Murphy of Kentucky. Tried and found guilty, she was sentenced to seven years in prison; she served seven months and eighteen days before being pardoned by Governor Thomas Bramlette. Her case shows the Underground Railroad still operating during the Civil War — the Emancipation Proclamation had not freed the enslaved in Union-loyal Kentucky.
