Edward James Roye

ID: 2304
This file appears in: Emily Thomas Tubman House

Shown here is Edward James Roye, who emigrated from America to Liberia to receive his freedom. A number of Emily Thomas Tubman's slaves chose to immigrate to Liberia in 1842 when she freed them. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Emily Thomas Tubman House

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker # 2236 in Frankfort notes the location of philanthropist Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman's summer home. Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman lived an extraordinary life for a nineteenth century…