{"id":3995,"date":"2011-06-20T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:35:27","slug":"fugitives-from-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2011\/06\/20\/fugitives-from-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFugitives from Oppression\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/37139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4001\" title=\"Fugitive\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/06\/1861_06_20_fugitiveA-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/06\/1861_06_20_fugitiveA-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2011\/06\/1861_06_20_fugitiveA.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a>One hundred fifty years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/panel\/this_date\/1861-06-20\" target=\"_blank\">today<\/a> the Ripley (OH) <em>Bee<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/37139\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that three families from central <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/8985\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina<\/a> had recently passed through <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/19363\" target=\"_blank\">Ripley, Ohio<\/a> on their way to <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9098\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana<\/a>.  These families, as the <em>Bee<\/em> explained, \u201cwere escaping from the reign of terror\u201d that existed in the South. The families\u2019 \u201cjoy over their deliverance from the thralldom and terrorism of secession was openly expressed.\u201d As the <em>Bee<\/em> explained, they had been forced to leave in North Carolina \u201ctheir farms stock and other property, which they could not bring in their wagon.\u201d As they traveled north, the <em>Bee<\/em> described how \u201cthey had as little communication, as possible, with the people on the road and when asked as to their destination, said they were going to <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/17284\" target=\"_blank\">Fleming Co., Ky.<\/a>, and sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9007\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri<\/a>.\u201d They did not dare admit that their true destination was in Indiana. You can read more about the political situation in North Carolina this time in Daniel W. Crofts\u2019 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=oosFWjAxnIMC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=Daniel%20Crofts%20Reluctant%20Confederate&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=true\" target=\"_blank\">Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis<\/a><\/em> (1993).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred fifty years ago today the Ripley (OH) Bee reported that three families from central North Carolina had recently passed through Ripley, Ohio on their way to Indiana. These families, as the Bee explained, \u201cwere escaping from the reign of terror\u201d that existed in the South. The families\u2019 \u201cjoy over their deliverance from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}