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Primary Sources: Slavery & Abolition: Fugitives
primary sources related to slavery and efforts to end slavery
District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of Iowa, Burlington, June term, 1850. Ruel Daggs, vs. Elihu Frazier, et als., trespass on the case / reported by Geo. Frazee.
Narrative of Lewis W. Paine, who suffered imprisonment six years in Georgia, for the crime of aiding the escape of a fellow-man from that state, after he had fled from slavery. Written by himself.
at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage. : with an appendix containing a sketch of his life.
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