1853-- Twenty-Five Enslaved Seek Freedom after Reading Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Title
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1853-- Twenty-Five Enslaved Seek Freedom after Reading Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Date
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2 Apr 1853
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Formatted date
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1853-04-15
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Event type
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Escape
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Description
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Twenty-five enslaved persons fled slavery in Boone County, Kentucky, allegedly after one of them read Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to the group of them. A month later it was reported that none of them had been captured.
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Bibliographic citation
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Vermont watchman and State journal. (Montpelier, VT), May. 5 1853. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84023200/1853-05-05/ed-1/.