1856--Punishment without Trial
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Title
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1856--Punishment without Trial
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Date
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19 Sep 1856
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Formatted date
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1856-09-19
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Event type
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Capture
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Lynching
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Description
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A report accuses a runaway slave of attacking two women. He was arrested but then taken by a group of people into the country and tortured. The formerly enslaved man was killed, based on the crimes he was accused of, without a trial.
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Location
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Golconda (Ill.)
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Pope County (Ill.)
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Kentucky
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Bibliographic citation
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Orleans Independent Standard. [volume], September 19, 1856, Image 4
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Source
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022548/1856-09-19/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1792&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Kentucky+runaway&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=18&state=&date2=1865&proxtext=%22kentucky%22+%22runaway%22&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2