1863--Five or Six Freedom Seekers Escape
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Title
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1863--Five or Six Freedom Seekers Escape
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Date
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Nov 1863
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Formatted date
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1863-11-01
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Event type
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Escape
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Description
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Leonard Stephens, in a letter dated December 12, 1863, wrote to his brother William, in Missouri. The letter states the following, “there was a lot of five or six negroes ran away from the neighborhood of Florence three weeks ago. The owners have no intelligence of them, and I believe took no steps to recover them. Some seem to think that there may be a good deal of that sort of thing shortly.”
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Participant
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Other participant(s): Leonard Stephens; William Stephens