Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Five Freedom Seekers

Title: Underground Railroad: More Western Memories. Five Freedom Seekers
Is part of: Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 1849-1938; The
Publisher: I. Van Anden
Place: Brooklyn, NY
Date: 24 May 1887
Language: English
Temporal coverage: 1841-1963
Description: From the article, "One day, in 1852, a great hue and cry was raised over the escape of five slaves-three men and two women-from the farm of Squire James Stevens, of Boone County, Ky., about ten miles fro the Ohio river. They were traced to the river but there the clow was lost. Their owner naturally supposed that they had succeeded in crossing the river, and a large reward was offered for their capture. The slave hunters were out in force on the Indiana side. They searched the town above mentioned, the woods, and even Barkshire's house, but no runaways were to be found. Years afterward, Mrs. Hawkins revealed the fact that those five slaves had been secreted in her house-no one suspecting her at that time of being in league with her former slave."; Accessed online at Newspapers.com
Related resource: https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/60787894/
Bibliographic citation: About the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83031151/>

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