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Wilmington, Ohio: John W. Chaffin: Newspapers.com: The Liberator: 1831–1865: Boston, Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison, Isaac Knapp: Digital Commonwealth (Garrison's copy) * Newspapers.com: National Anti-Slavery Standard [5] 1840–1870 Philadelphia, New York City Lydia Maria Child, David Lee Child: Newspapers.com (1840–1852) The ...
Sally Miller, born Salomé Müller (c. 1814 – ?), [1] [2] was an American woman enslaved sometime in the late 1810s, whose freedom suit in Louisiana was based on her claimed status as a free German immigrant and indentured servant born to non-enslaved parents. The case attracted wide attention and publicity because of the issue of "white ...
The same article described a chain of Reverse Underground Railroad posts "established from Pennsylvania to Louisiana". [14] In the West, kidnappers rode the waters of the Ohio River, stealing slaves in Kentucky and kidnapping free people in southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, who were then transported to the slave states. [15]
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The daughter first married Henry Brereton, a blacksmith who kidnapped free black Americans for sale into slavery. Brereton was convicted and imprisoned in 1811 for such kidnapping, but escaped from the Georgetown, Delaware jail. Brereton was captured, convicted of murder in another case, and hanged with one of his criminal associates, Joseph ...
Of the 7,000 women selected, most died on the forced marches or on the sea voyage, and only 1,300 arrived at the colony. [2] Some of the women were forcibly married to male prisoners also being sent to Louisiana. [3] Many correction girls were sickly and malnourished; some had venereal diseases and others were dangerous criminals.
In 1806, Benjamin Farrar, "one of the most prosperous planters" of the Natchez District, [29] offered a $20 reward for the capture of 26-year-old Sam, "5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, large prominent eyes, he has an impediment in his speech, is branded on the breast B. F." [30] Sometime before 1810, Claud Guillaud of Louisiana branded Pierre, who ...
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