Johnson, Eliza [2]
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Title
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Johnson, Eliza [2]
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Gender
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Female
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Biography
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Eliza worked as a nurse for a couple in Cincinnati. It is uncertain whether she was ever enslaved in Kentucky. Eliza traveled with her employers to Louisville and stayed with them there in a boarding house. She became acquainted with an enslaved man who worked in the boarding house during their stay. After Eliza returned to Cincinnati with her employers, the man she had befriended sought his freedom and made it to Canada. The enslaver, Mr. Mann, accused Eliza of instigating her friend to leave his enslaver and seek his freedom. The punishment could have resulted in several years in a penitentiary for Eliza. She was brought to Louisville and placed in jail. The case relied solely on the wife of Mr. Mann, who purportedly went to Cincinnati to befriend Eliza and obtain a confession of her part in the enslaved man’s decision. This was thankfully not enough, and she was discharged without ever having been indicted in the first place.
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Birth information
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1839
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Relationship
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Slaveholder(s): Mann, unknown
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Bibliographic citation(s)
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The Voice of Freedom. (Montpelier, VT), Dec. 14 1839. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84022687/1839-12-14/ed-1/.