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Delaney, Fannie
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Green, Thomas [2]
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Cleveland, Mary
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Brockman, Louisa
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Cleveland, Eliza
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Cleveland, Charles
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Aylor, Hannah F.
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unknown, Asa [2]
Asa fled enslavement in the summer of 1848. He stayed near Ripley, OH using the name "Bishop."
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Graves, Edmund
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Graves, Bartlett O.
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1847--Cass County (Mich.) Raid
A large group of northern Kentucky slaveholders, slave catchers and their various assistants descended on Cass County, Michgan, raiding homes in pursuit of those who had escaped enslavement en mass several months before.
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1847--Elkhart County (Ind.) Raid
On their way to Cass County, Michigan to recapture a large group of formerly enslaved people, a group broke off from the main raiding party and diverted to neighboring Elkhart County, Indiana in search of Tom Harris, who had left northern Kentucky just before the majority of those the enslavers were pursuing.
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Public Meeting
Located on page 3, the article announces a public meeting to organize an association to prevent escapes from enslavement. This meeting lead to the formation of the Kenton County Association for Securing Our Servants.
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Kenton County Association for Securing Our Servants (Kenton County, Ky.)
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1847--Second of Two Group Escapes
Enslaved people from slaveholders in Boone County and Kenton County (Buckner, Graves, Cleveland, Lindsay, Stephens, Sanford, Scott, and Timberlake) escaped in two groups. The second was about 11 people in May 1847.
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The Kentucky Raid
The article describes the two mass escapes of enslaved people from Northern Kentucky that took place in April and May of 1847, and the unsuccessful attempt of the slaveholders to take the freedom seekers back the following October. That attempt, known at the time as the "Kentucky Raid" in the north and the "Cassopolis Outrage" in the south, starkly illustrate the sharp divide in viewpoints over enslavement that existed at that time.
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Northern Kentucky Heritage
A semiannual publication covering historical and genealogical topics for the ten northernmost counties in Kentucky.
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Negro Stealing
Appearing on page 3 of the newspaper, the short article is full of outrage for the transgressions against the rights of slaveholders.
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The Cassopolis Outrage--The Rights of Slavery
The article fills all of the first column of page 3, and runs onto the second column. Written by "A Citizen of Boone", the article lays out the rights of slaveholders, defending them in the face of what the article writer considers to be the unjust actions of abolitionists in aiding the enslaved to freedom.
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Infamous!
Appearing on page 2 of the newspaper, the short article is full of outrage for the "vile den" of "thieves" in southern Michigan who prevented local Kentucky enslavers from re-taking enslaved people.
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Sandford, Alfred Pope
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Taylor, Alice Thornton
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Berry, Washington
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Berry, Lucy Mary
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Finney, Benjamin
Benjamin's military records also include a copy of the bill of sale from when he was sold at five years of age. If his former enslaver was attempting to recover compensation for Benjamin's military service, this may have been part of the documentation.