sentences:  She proceeded to buy stocks in Kent and Son in an attempt to become the majority shareholder.Though he lived in a southern state, Jephtha became morally opposed to slavery and he became a conductor on the Underground Railroad.In 1852, he mailed a female slave belonging to his father-in-law, Virgil Tunworth, in a wooden box to Amanda in New York City, where she was now living, and she inadvertently also became a conductor.