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Title: Newspaper account of the capture and arrest of Mary Meachum and enslaved persons attempted crossing of the Mississippi River to freedom in Illinois on May 21, 1855.
Description: Newspaper account of the capture and arrest of Mary Meachum and enslaved persons attempted crossing of the Mississippi River to freedom in Illinois on May 21, 1855. See IMAGE 0153.

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Title Newspaper account of the capture and arrest of Mary Meachum and enslaved persons attempted crossing of the Mississippi River to freedom in Illinois on May 21, 1855.
Creator
Subject African Americans
Bissell's Ferry
Bounty hunters
Conductor
Enslaved People
Enslaver
Freedom Seeker
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Fugitive slaves
Glasgow Weekly Times
Illinois
Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing
Meachum, Mary
Missouri
Newspapers
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1889
Slave owners
Slavery
St. Louis (MO)
Underground Railroad
United States

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Description Newspaper account of the capture and arrest of Mary Meachum and enslaved persons attempted crossing of the Mississippi River to freedom in Illinois on May 21, 1855. See IMAGE 0153.
PublisherMissouri Botanical Garden
ContributorMissouri Botanical Garden
Date of original
Date scanned
TypeImage
FormatTIF
IdentifierIMAGE 0152
SourceDigital Image
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Rightshttp://www.mobot.org/mobot/archives/copyright.asp
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