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From Cincinnati Describes the violence of Boone County (Ky.) "rebel rangers" who grabbed and whipped a freedman with thorn bush branches in front of his family, and ordering him out of the county under threat of death.
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Arrest and Examination of Eight Fugitive Slaves in Cincinnati Describes the arrest and trial of eight freedom seekers from Boone County, Kentucky.
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Sleet, Estill According to his World War I draft registration, Estill was tall with a medium build. His World War II draft registration card further clarified, marking his height as 6 feet 2 inches, and his weight at 185 pounds.
- Delaney, Fannie
- Green, Thomas [2]
- Cleveland, Eliza
- Graves, Bartlett O.
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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.
- 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.
- Sandford, Alfred Pope
- 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.
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Finney, Leticia S. Though Letty is clearly a free woman in the 1860 census, three of her children (Jane, Samuel and Benjamin) were enslaved. This implies that Letty was enslaved as well at one point, then later freed. Her daughter Julie appears to have been born free.
- Finney, Jordan
- Herndon, Zachariah
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Armstrong, John Hume The 1870 census lists a single African-American living in John Armstrong's household in 1870, shortly after emancipation. Merriah Williams, listed as a domestic servant, is the correct age to have been the enslaved woman recorded in previous census records.
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Hume, Samuel W. From the census records, it appears that Samuel remained at home with his mother, managing the farm after his father died and his siblings moved out. He does not appear to have ever married.
- Hume, Benjamin Proctor
- Hume, George Jackson