Excitement in Ohio
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Title
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Excitement in Ohio
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Subtitle
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Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law
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Place
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Staunton, Va.
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Date
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6 Jun 1857
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Extent
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Several paragraphs
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Language
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English
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Temporal coverage
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1857
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Geographic coverage
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Greene County (Ohio)
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Fleming County (Ky.)
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Description
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The short article relates the arrest of four men in Mechanicsburg, Ohio for sheltering a freedom seeker from Flemingsburg, Ky., and sending him on his way north. They were charged with violating the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Located on page 2, column 6
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The account was republished from the Cincinnati Gazette