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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:
Slave Shipment. - Eighty-five slaves were shipped from this point yesterday, over the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad en route for Kentucky. Things have come to such a pass in this section that slave owners have few rights that are entitled to respect, and being possessed of sufficient discernment to appreciate this fact, even the masters themselves are becoming practical immediate Emancipationists.
When the darkies cross over Jordan into the land of bleeding patriots and fat contractors, but slight, if any, effort a will be made to secure their return. It is the more stubborn of these masters who are now shipping off their servants to Kentucky.Date(s) of Creation
8/20/1863
