Raynor HCA 2014-01
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A complete issue of the New York Daily Times, July 24, 1857, 8pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, “A Woman Fleeing from Slavery with her Children Arrested"” brings the report which states in part, “Last evening our little village was excited by an arrest of a negro woman and three small children, who had escaped from their master, living at La Grange, Mo. It appears the poor creatures had been lurking in the timber, within half a mile of our place, for two or three days ... This treachery was performed by the daughter of Mr. WELSH, a young woman, who found the negroes a short distance from the house by telling them that she was a friend to them, and that if they would go with her to the house she would give them something to eat. The crazy mother could but accept this offer for her starving children and without suspicion went into the house. But before they had time to allay their hunger, the sable mother and poor helpless children were surrounded by a dozen stout men ...” And a second important report, “Attempt to Abduct Slaves by a Free Negro Sailor” advises how Bill owens conned three slaves into his schooner.
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