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A Gateway to Freedom
Historical Marker
(22.2004.1)

Footnote 3

Many freedom-seekers were aided by other slaves,
free blacks, and anti-slavery whites--all risking violence and arrest.

Louisville Daily Journal, December 24, 1853.

Louisville Daily Journal, April 6, 1855.

Louisville Daily Courier, September 7, 1855.

Louisville Daily Courier, September 8, 1855.

Louisville Daily Courier, September 10, 1855.

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