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Many of the Quaker articles include slavery history. Iowa Territorial Anti-Slavery Society established 1843 1847 Anti-Slavery meeting 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 Dr. Poulter – Tiffany’s Corner – Dr. Muir – Harriet Ketcham - UGRR 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 Meanness. Self Sustaining . . . 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 Emancipation Day - September 1886 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 Edward Mosley - 1877 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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