Free Again
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Title
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Free Again
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Place
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Windsor (Ont.)
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Date
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13 Aug 1851
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Language
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English
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Temporal coverage
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1851-1854
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Description
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"Some five or six years ago Mr. Joshua Zimmerman of Boone County, Ky, brought his favorite servant, a boy named Bill, with his family seven in number, to Ohio, where he settled them on a farm which he purchased expressly for their benefit. A few days ago during the holidays several of his servants (9 in number) and among them some of the remainder of Billy's family petitioned for leave to make a visit to the Ohio branch of the family, which was granted, the master furnishing them with a pass to cross and the farm horses and wagon. When they arrived at the end of their journey they wrote to their master that the atmosphere of Ohio was more congenial to their tastes than the corn fields of Kentucky, and that if he would send for his team it would be forthcoming: but they respectfully declined returning to his service. The bereaved mother of one of the above, is now in a land of partial freedom,- and she is anxious to find her son, whom she supposes to be somewhere in Canada, or in the northern States. The boy goes by the name of "Andrew Jackson," and is now about eleven years old. If any friend of humanity can give information respecting this boy, they would confer a great favor upon an anxious mother, by communicating the same to the 'Voice of the Fugitive,' at Sandwich, Canada West."
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Free Again