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.
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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
Relation	Images
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 0152.
Publisher	Missouri Botanical Garden
Contributor	Missouri Botanical Garden
Date of original
Date scanned
Type	Image
Format	TIF
Identifier	IMAGE 0153
Source	Digital Image
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