1835--Reward for Tom and Hiram

Title: 1835--Reward for Tom and Hiram
Date: 1835
Formatted date: 1835-10-01
Event type: Escape
Description: A reward is offered for Tom and Hiram, two men who escaped from slave-trader, O. W. Gaines. The freedom Seekers were named in handbills distributed in Rising Sun, Indiana post offices. Gaines, related to the Gaines family in Boone County, Kentucky, had also borrowed $50,000 from the Indiana state bank for purchase of Kentucky slaves to sell in the Louisiana market. Many of the enslaved in Boone County, Kentucky were sold south, possibly with this group.
Participant: African American(s): Tom; Hiram; unknown, Hiram [5]; unknown, Tom [9]; Slave holder(s): O.W. Gaines; Gaines, O.W.
Location: Boone County (Ky.); Rising Sun (Ind.)
Related resource: Gaines family
Bibliographic citation: "Reward for Tom and Hiram," Rising Sun Times, Rising Sun, IN, 31 Oct 1835
Source: Reward for Tom and Hiram

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