Delaware

Annie Arniel

Released

Annie Arniel was a Delaware factory worker and one of the most frequently jailed Silent Sentinels picketing fo...

William Bright

Released

William Bright was from Wilmington, Delaware. William Bright was a Methodist layman held for Southern sympathi...

Samuel D. Burris

Released

Samuel D. Burris was a free Black Underground Railroad conductor from western Kent County, Delaware, documente...

Isaac W. K. Handy

Released

Isaac W. K. Handy was a Presbyterian minister held without trial at Fort Delaware as a Civil War political pri...

Burton N. Harrison

Released

Burton N. Harrison was a lawyer who served as private secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis from...

Florence Bayard Hilles

Released

Florence Bayard Hilles was a Delaware NWP chair and Silent Sentinel from a prominent political family (her fat...

John Hunn

Released

John Hunn was a Quaker Underground Railroad stationmaster in Delaware, often called the "superintendent" of th...

Francis R. Lubbock

Released

Francis R. Lubbock was the ninth Governor of Texas (1861–1863). After leaving office he joined the Confederate...

Richard B. Moore

Richard B. Moore was individually named as arrested during the Wilmington Communist campaign meeting and taken...

Edward S. Sharpe

Released

Edward S. Sharpe was a physician in Salem, New Jersey, and an anti-war ("Peace") Democrat who was detained at...

Mabel Vernon

Released

Mabel Vernon was a Suffragist, pacifist, and longtime organizer for the National Woman's Party who was one of...

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Noel

Released

Noel was one of a group of political prisoners removed from confinement and unconditionally released. He was h...

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Richards

Released

Richards was from Delaware. Richards was a young Delawarean of strong Southern proclivities held as a politica...

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Charles Bailey

Charles Bailey was one of seven people arrested during the Kiamensi Woolen repair workers’ strike at Wilmingto...

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William Bradley

Released

William Bradley was from Sussex County, Delaware. William Bradley was one of six Sussex County, Delaware citiz...

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Thomas Cannon

Released

Thomas Cannon was from Sussex County, Delaware. Thomas Cannon was one of six Sussex County, Delaware citizens...

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Carl Carlson

Carl Carlson was arrested when Wilmington police attacked an open-air meeting of Hunger Marchers traveling to...

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Carlos M. De La Mar

Released

Carlos M. De La Mar was from Wilmington, Delaware. Carlos M. De La Mar was a British subject held as a politic...

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Edward J. Devitt

Released

Edward J. Devitt was a political prisoner condemned to hard labor 'during the war' with the fort's punishment...

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Sam Elliott

Sam Elliott was one of seven people arrested during the Kiamensi Woolen repair workers’ strike at Wilmington,...

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Sterling Hobbs Fatir

Released

One of the 'Smyrna 7' at the Delaware Correctional Center who, per the defense committee in The Black Panther...

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Jennie Foranro

Jennie Foranro was individually named as arrested during the Wilmington Communist campaign meeting and taken t...

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Gittelman (Wilmington Sacco-Vanzetti speaker)

A worker identified only as Gittelman was arrested when police broke up an International Labor Defense Sacco-V...

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Curtis Gordon

Curtis Gordon, a Black Wilmington resident, was arrested by Pennsylvania Railroad detective Leroy Hutton while...