Tag: Underground Railroad
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Flight to Freedom via the Underground Railroad
This Story Map shares Archer Alexander’s Flight to Freedom on the Underground Railroad…
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29 September 1829 – Thirty-fourth entry
Like his father and mother before him, Archer had never been away from Rockbridge County Virginia where he had been born in 1806. He had never seen anything what he’d encountered these past six weeks. The caravan had entered Illinois, where the first state Constitution in 1818 stated that while slavery shall not be “thereafter…
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11 September 1829 – Sixteenth Entry
Passed by Greenupsburg, KY, a handsome little village on a bottom of the Ohio River. The beautiful new steamboat Virginia cam sailing majestically down the Ohio River. My brother, [Charles Fenelon Campbell] took passage on her for Ripley, Ohio.
ARCHER ALEXANDER 