1849--Sisley Attempts Escape

Title: 1849--Sisley Attempts Escape
Date: 1849
Formatted date: 1849-01-01
Event type: Escape
Description: After an unsuccessful escape attempt ca. 1849, Sisley, the daughter of Jennie Stephens and John "Felix" White was first sold to Webb Ross of Georgetown, KY with her mother and siblings, then to John A. Miller, a Mississippi cotton planter who held hundreds of enslaved people. Jane placed two ads in 1867 and 1885 looking for Sisley and her sister Lucy Ann. There is no indication they were ever reunited.
Participant: African American(s): Sisley; White, Sisley; Slave holder(s): Stephens, Benjamin Jr.; Stephens, Benjamin L., Jr.; Other participant(s): Ross, Webb; Miller, John A.; Ross, Webb; Miller, John A.
Location: Georgetown (Ky.); New Orleans (La.); Mississippi
Related resource: Miller family; Ross family; Stephens family; White family
Bibliographic citation: "Jenny (White) Carter Information Wanted Ad," The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, PA, 27 Apr 1867; "D. Carter, Information Wanted Ads," The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, PA, 2 Apr 1885
Source: Jenny (White) Carter Information Wanted Ad; D. Carter, Information Wanted Ad

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Broadwell, Marquis De La Fayette	Person
Keene, Robert	Person
Miller, John A.	Person
Ray, Wright	Person
Ross, Webb	Person
Stephens, Benjamin L., Jr.	Person
Stephens, Jane	Person
White, Emily Francis	Person
White, George W.	Person
White, John "Felix"	Person
White, Lucy Ann	Person
White, Oscar F.	Person
White, Sisley	Person

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