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Many of the Quaker articles include slavery history. Early History of Underground Railroad Missourians came to Salem seeking runaway slaves Underground Railroad in Henry County Linsey Coppock's Mill Runaway or Stolen, 1838, $200 Reward Peter Collin's Underground Railroad House Beehive Daggs Run-a-way Slaves The Salem Affair, 1848 An Iowa Fugitive Slave Case - 1850 John Brown in Kansas – 1856 James Yancy Talk - 1856 Joe Johnson Escape Henry County's Men of Color: Rising to the Cause Freedman's Relief Association, 1863 Church and School for Colored Persons, 1863/1865 Freedmen's Aid Commission and Officers, 1864 Freedmen School House – 1864 Emancipation Proclamation Commemoration - 1865 1867, A Word from Iowa Our New Citizens, 1868 First Vote, 1869 Iowa Wesleyan's First African American Student - Thomas E,. Dortch Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment Early African American Residents Census 1870 Underground Railroad Convention – 1875 Colored Jubilee, 1879 Mt. Pleasant’s Samuel Luke Howe and the Underground Railroad Rachel Kellum remembers Nathan Kellum Conducting the Underground Railroad Organizing a Troupe - Minstrel Company Early Residents of Mt. Pleasant	Adam Arms - 1888 Alfred Colson – 1918 Charles Fidler – 1913 Ebenezer Dortch – 1896 Dave Fidler – 1909 Mrs. Mary Fuller – 1911 Melvina Conner Harris – 1917 Fred Harrison David Johnson - 1869 Henry Johnson – 1898 Alfred Mason – 1910 Sarah Mason – 1876 Mrs. Moses Mosley – 1900 Moses Mosley – 1916 Thomas Mosley – 1877 Angeline Mosley Mason – 1909 Agnes Mosley – 1886 Mariah Tall Mosley Sketch/Obituary Amanda Reescer – 1919 Elmer Richmond – 1922 Eliza Struthers – 1913 Mrs. Dan Taylor – 1916 Dan Taylor – 1911 James Wicks – 1914 Ora May Wells (Walls), Juvenile Letter - 1905 Mary (Allen) Burnett - 1844-1922
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