Kentucky raid in Cass County (1847) was conducted by slaveholders and slave catchers who raided Underground Railroad stations in Cass County, Michigan...

into Kentucky to bring people escaping slavery directly north into Michigan. Angry slaveholders banded together for the Kentucky raid on Cass County of...

southern slaveholders. In 1847 and 1849, planters from Bourbon and Boone counties in Northern Kentucky led raids into Cass County to recapture escaped slaves...

into Cass and Berrien. Branch also sprung fully formed from Michigan Territory in 1829. Chippewa County was created from Michilimackinac County in 1826...

like the Kentucky raid in Cass County (1847), the Crosswhite Affair in Marshall, and raids that occurred in Detroit. There were regular sections in the paper...

masters in the United States and thus established Canada as a safe terminus for the Underground Railroad. Blackburn was born in Mason County, Kentucky, and...

all lived in the same household as the elderly William Still and his wife, confirming the custom of extended families living together. In 1847, three years...

settled in Marshall, Michigan. In 1847, slavers from Kentucky came to Michigan to kidnap African Americans and return them to slavery in Kentucky. Citizens...

naming highway M-66 in Calhoun County the Sojourner Truth Memorial Highway, running from the county line south of Athens to Morgan Road in Pennfield Township...

stayed in their communities. White pioneers who traveled to Kentucky and the Ohio Territory saw "Black Shawnees" living with Indigenous people in the trans-Appalachian...

The Jackson Homestead, located at 527 Washington Street, in the village of Newton Corner, in Newton, Massachusetts, is an historic house that served as...

people to "break your chains and fly for freedom". In 1847, Raiders from Kentucky came to Cass County and tried to kidnap at least nine formerly enslaved...

front window to guide♆ runaway slaves from across the Ohio River, in Mason County, Kentucky. However, ex-slave narrative[whose?] recalls a pole with a light...

1847–1894 (1978) online Klunder, Willard Carl. Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation (1996). MacNaughton, A. Douglas. The Methodist Church in Michigan:...

Compromise. In January 1857, Chandler ran as a Republican and was elected as a U.S. Senator for Michigan, succeeding Lewis Cass. Chandler was reelected in 1863...

slaves, instigated what has been called the Kentucky raid on Cass County of 1847 to recover their former slaves. In 1850, his wife was named Eliza. She appears...

from Kentucky, a slave state, this town was a destination for refugee slaves seeking escape from slavery. DeBaptiste moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1846...

along the Central Michigan Route that had stops every 15 miles between Cass County and Detroit, Michigan. Stations were at Climax, Battle Creek, Marshall...

They both graduated in 1843 and were married that year in Rochester, Ohio. Barnard was licensed to preach in June 1843. Red Lake Cass Lake Saint Paul Leech...

survived their father: Edmund Askin Brush (1802–1877), who married Elizabeth Cass Hunt (1825–1913). Charles Andrew Brush (1804–1807), who died young. Charles...

Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio) View of Cincinnati, Ohio From Covington, Kentucky, 1851 (Cincinnati Historical Society) The Garden of Eden (after Cole),...

narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed...

United States in 1795 by J. V. Campbell". Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan together with Reports of County Pioneer Societies...

after his release, Walker lectured on slavery in the Northern and Western states. For instance, in 1847/48, he was on a four-and-a-half-month lecture...

England in the 1820s, and Uriah Upjohn's father feared the situation would not allow his children to advance in life. In 1828, William Upjohn (1779-1847) sent...

slavery in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1831. They were caught by slave catchers, thrown in jail, and sentenced to be returned to their owners in Kentucky. This...

the principals in the Crosswhite Affair, in which several individuals from Kentucky attempted to capture an African American family in Marshall and return...

£9,427 in 2023). The sale took place before 1762 at the Straits of Mackinac, a trading center. One of Monette and Askin's son-in-law states in a letter...

and helped him establish the first taxi company in Toronto. Lucie was born a slave in Louisville, Kentucky, then known as "Ruthie," "Ruth," or "Rutha." By...

include a recreation of the corn crib in which Tubman and her brothers hid in 1854' a sculpture depicting the Raid at Combahee Ferry, which Tubman helped...