1857--Rucker and Chambers Escape

Title: 1857--Rucker and Chambers Escape
Date: 1857
Formatted date: 1857-01-01
Event type: Escape
Description: "Rucker's and Chambers' negro men run off" is the title of an article refering to enslaved persons owned by Alfred Chambers and Paschal Rucker. Tax lists show the loss of two enslaved people for Chambers and five for Rucker. Both lived near Woolper Creek.
Participant: Slave holder(s): Chambers, Alfred; Rucker, Paschal; Chambers, Alfred Edwin; Rucker, Paschal
Location: Boone County (Ky.)
Related resource: Chambers family; Rucker family
Source: Boone County Tax List; Diary of Lewis Loder, 1857-1904

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