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Title: Voice of the Fugitive - December 17, 1851

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)

The writer relates the story of a couple whose child was killed while they were escaping slavery.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Canada; child; fugitive; Indiana; Mississippi; narrative; property; slave; Underground Railroad

People: Johnson, Isaac

Publication type: editorials; Newspapers

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