Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #101 from Abstracts from William Still's Underground Railroad

Traveler's Names James Henry
Age 32
Description quite a spirited-looking "article"
Alias
Origin- Town/City
Origin- County Kent Co.
Origin- State Maryland
Destination Canada
Birthplace
Slaveowner's Name
Chapter Title Arrival from Kent County, 1859
Page Number 429
Other Travelers Samuel Benton, John alexander, James Henry, Samuel Turner
Other Conductors
Additional Names
Method of Travel
Additional Resources
Items in Possession
Full Narrative JAMES HENRY, the third passenger, was about thirty-two years of age, and quite a spirited-looking " article." A few months before he fled he had been sold, at which time his age was given as " only twenty." He had suffered considerably from various abuses ; the hope of Canada however tended to make him joyful. The system of oppression from which these travelers fled had afforded them no privileges in the way of learning to read. All that they had ever known of civilization was what they perchance picked up in the ordinary routine of the field.

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