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Title
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Freeborn, Falsely Imprisoned
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Description
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Article tells the story of Allen Pinks, a free African-American living and working in Kansas during the late 1850s and 1860s. The author focuses upon Pinks' capture in Missouri without his freedom papers and later being held against his will in Platte County, Missouri, under charges of being an escaped slave. The author states that Pinks escaped, returned to Lawrence, and began to assist other slave hunters seeking to capture free African Americans in Kansas. It is stated that Pinks was murdered on April 29, 1869, in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Date
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2014-03-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Josiah Miller, an Antislavery Southerner
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Description
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Article on Josiah Miller, an antislavery newspaper man from South Carolina who settled in Lawrence, Kansas in 1854. Shortly after arriving, he left the newspaper business and became involved in local politics, serving as a probate judge and a state senator for Douglas County. Between 1854 and 1858, Miller kept an "active" correspondence with his parents, chronicling the early settlement of Lawrence and Bleeding Kansas period. The article reprints 11 of Miller's letters to his parents and includes information on an encounter his siblings had with Missouri guerrilla leader William Quantrill.
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Date
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2013
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
