1856--Jane Wayne and Children Escape
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Title
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1856--Jane Wayne and Children Escape
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Date
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1856
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Formatted date
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1856-11-01
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Event type
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Escape
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Description
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The narrative of Jane Wayne of Amherstburg, Ontario, dated circa 1894: Her first slaveholder was John Hester. She was sold to Tom Porter at 12 years old (also in Flemingsburg). Porter moved to Covington, KY, and took "all nine of us" with him.
Fearing the breakup of her family, she and her three children, with the help of the Cincinnati conductor Bob Russell and two unnamed men, escaped enslavement on a Sunday in November “the year Fremont ran” (referring to the 1856 Presidential candidate John C. Fremont.) They settled in Amherstburg, Essex, Ontario.
The eldest daughter married Henry H. Young.
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Participant
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African American(s): Jayne (Jane) Wayne
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Slave holder(s): Tom Porter
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Porter, Thomas
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Other participant(s): John Hester; Bob Russell
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Hester, John
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Bibliographic citation
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Ohio: Hamilton County file, Wilbur H. Siebert Collection, Ohio History Connection.