Kentucky raid in Cass County (1847) was conducted by slaveholders and slave catchers who raided Underground Railroad stations in Cass County, Michigan...
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into Kentucky to bring people escaping slavery directly north into Michigan. Angry slaveholders banded together for the Kentucky raid on Cass County of...
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William Still (category People of New Jersey in the American Civil War)
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...
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southern slaveholders. In 1847 and 1849, planters from Bourbon and Boone counties in Northern Kentucky led raids into Cass County to recapture escaped slaves...
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Michigan Territory (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
into Cass and Berrien. Branch also sprung fully formed from Michigan Territory in 1829. Chippewa County was created from Michilimackinac County in 1826...
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Signal of Liberty (category Abolitionist newspapers published in the United States)
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...
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Adam Crosswhite (category People from Bourbon County, Kentucky)
settled in Marshall, Michigan. In 1847, slavers from Kentucky came to Michigan to kidnap African Americans and return them to slavery in Kentucky. Citizens...
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Underground Railroad (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
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...
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Sojourner Truth (category First-wave feminism in the United States)
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...
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1847–1894 (1978) online Klunder, Willard Carl. Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation (1996). MacNaughton, A. Douglas. The Methodist Church in Michigan:...
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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...
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from Kentucky, a slave state, this town was a destination for refugee slaves seeking escape from slavery. DeBaptiste moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1846...
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Wright Modlin (category People from Cass County, Michigan)
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...
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John Rankin (abolitionist) (category People from Carlisle, Kentucky)
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...
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Alonzo Barnard (category Presbyterian missionaries in the United States)
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...
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The Underground Railroad (Still) (category Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania)
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...
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Erastus Hussey (category Mayors of places in Michigan)
along the Central Michigan Route that had stops every 15 miles between Cass County and Detroit, Michigan. Stations were at Climax, Battle Creek, Marshall...
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Elijah Brush (category 19th-century mayors of places in Michigan)
survived their father: Edmund Askin Brush (1802–1877), who married Elizabeth Cass Hunt (1825–1913). Charles Andrew Brush (1804–1807), who died young. Charles...
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Thornton Blackburn (category People from Mason County, Kentucky)
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...
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Jackson Homestead (category Museums in Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
The Jackson Homestead, located at 527 Washington Street, in the village of Newton Corner, in Newton, Massachusetts, is an historic house that served as...
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Robert S. Duncanson (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio) View of Cincinnati, Ohio From Covington, Kentucky, 1851 (Cincinnati Historical Society) The Garden of Eden (after Cole),...
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Zachariah Chandler (category 19th-century mayors of places 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...
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Blackburn Riots (category 1833 in Michigan Territory)
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...
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Jonathan Walker (abolitionist) (category People from Muskegon County, Michigan)
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...
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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...
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Jerry Rescue (category Abolitionism in New York (state))
in the area. Syracuse became an active center for the abolitionist movement due in large part to the influence of Gerrit Smith, from Madison County,...
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the principals in the Crosswhite Affair, in which several individuals from Kentucky attempted to capture an African American family in Marshall and return...
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Reverend George B. Hitchcock House (category National Register of Historic Places in Cass County, Iowa)
George B. Hitchcock House is a historic house museum in Cass County, Iowa, near the city of Lewis. Built in 1856 by the Congregationalist minister George B...
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£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...
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Lucie Blackburn (category People enslaved in Kentucky)
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...
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