Description
The Great Slave Exodus in Missouri - Its Lesson. - - The following paragraphs from the St. Joseph Herald show that the slaves in Missouri, impatient with the tardy operation of the pro-slavery emancipation ordnance recently adopted, have taken the work into their own hands, and are pushing it forward with amazing briskness:
The Great Run. – All of E. B. Kirtley’s negroes left their master here last night, for parts unknown - what need of more immediate emancipation or a tax on human flesh and blood? The darkies seem to be as impatient as some distinguished white people that we know of. The mania for running away and running for office seems to rule the hour.Date(s) of Creation
8/20/1863
