Excitement in Ohio

Title: Excitement in Ohio
Subtitle: Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law
Is part of: Republican Vindicator (Staunton, Va.), 1849-1857
Place: Staunton, Va.
Date: 6 Jun 1857
Extent: Several paragraphs
Language: English
Temporal coverage: 1857
Geographic coverage: Greene County (Ohio); Fleming County (Ky.)
Description: 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.; Located on page 2, column 6; The account was republished from the Cincinnati Gazette
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