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Ephaim Nute of Lawrence provides an interesting description of the plight of one of the Doy party's fugitive slaves, captured and jailed at Platte City until his escape and dangerous flight back to Lawrence. "We have him now hid & are to day making arrangements to have him set forward tomorrow 30 miles to another depot. I think they (there are 2 others to go) will not be taken again without bloodshed." Nute also mentioned his involvement in the "Charley Fisher affair in Leavenworth." Fisher, a black fugitive, had actually come to Nute's house "disguised in female attire."
Creator: Nute, Ephraim
Date: February 24, 1859
Item Number: 4980
Call Number: John Brown Coll. #299 Box 2 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 4980
Collections - Manuscript - Brown, John
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Prisons and Jails
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition - Underground Railroad
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans - Slavery
People - Notable Kansans - Doy, John, b. 1812
People - Notable People - Brown, John, 1800-1859
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Jefferson
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - International - Canada
Places - Other States - Missouri - Platte County - Platte City
Places - Rivers - Missouri
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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