1863--Five or Six Freedom Seekers Escape

Title: 1863--Five or Six Freedom Seekers Escape
Date: Nov 1863
Formatted date: 1863-11-01
Event type: Escape
Description: Leonard Stephens, in a letter dated December 12, 1863, wrote to his brother William, in Missouri. The letter states the following, “there was a lot of five or six negroes ran away from the neighborhood of Florence three weeks ago. The owners have no intelligence of them, and I believe took no steps to recover them. Some seem to think that there may be a good deal of that sort of thing shortly.”
Participant: Other participant(s): Leonard Stephens; William Stephens
Location: Florence (Ky.)
Related resource: Stephens family
Source: Stephens Family Letters and Documents