1863--James Harvey Patterson Escape
Item
- Title
- 1863--James Harvey Patterson Escape
- Date
- 1863
- Formatted date
- 1863-01-01
- Event type
- Escape
- Description
- Two years before the end of the Civil War, in 1863, an enslaved man, James Harvey Patterson (born in Boone County, Kentucky, on Sept. 15, 1831) self-emancipated. He ultimately settled in Kansas, where he died at the age of 94 years.
- Participant
- African American(s): James Harvey Patterson
- Related resource
- Patterson family