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Quincy IL Whig, November 6, 1849 (Courtesy of Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive)<\/p><\/div>\n
Search Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Search conducted by Dana Marecheau July 2-3, 2019.<\/li>\n
- Keywords: slave stampede, stampede, stampede of slaves<\/li>\n
- Totals: 8 hits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- “We find the following telegraphic despatch in the St. Louis Republican of Saturday last.\u2013 We had not before heard of this “stampede,” although Lewis county lies nearly opposite this: Quincy, Nov, 21. NEGRO STAMPEDE. \u2013 About fifty negroes, (men, women, and children,) with teams, owned by Miss Militer, McKim and McCutchin, of Sugar creek, and William Ellis of Monticello, Lew county Mo.’ started for parts unknown about one o’clock last night.” (Quincy IL Whig<\/em>, November 6, 1849)<\/li>\n
- \u201cWe are getting a little tired of this disposition of our Missouri friends to lose their equilibrium, and charge that every slave stampede that takes places originates in this city.\u201d (\u201cAcross the River,\u201d Quincy IL Whig<\/em>, July 7, 1854)<\/li>\n
- \u201cWe have been told that a few persons in Quincy, construe an editorial in our Daily of Friday last into something like an intimation that we would\u00a0 justify lawless attacks upon abolitionists, by way of retribution for their supposed connexion with slave stampedes the other side of the river.\u201d <\/em>(\u201cEditorial Misrepresentation,\u201d Quincy IL Whig<\/em>, February 12, 1853)<\/li>\n
- \u201cThe Muscatine Journal, speaking of a recent Slave Stampede in Northern Missouri and an unsuccessful effort to overtake the fugitive, says\u2026\u201d (\u201cThe Underground Railroad,\u201d Quincy IL Whig<\/em>, September 11, 1854)<\/li>\n
- \u201cAnother cause operating powerfully is the insecurity of this chattelized property. In Missouri, surrounded as she is by free States, stampedes of slaves are of frequent occurrence. You cannot take up one of the city paper without seeing an advertisement with its accompanying rewards for the recovery of runaway slaves.\u201d (\u201cMissouri and Slavery,\u201d Quincy IL Whig<\/em>, March 15, 1859)<\/li>\n
- “It appears by advice from Fortress Monroe that there is likely to be a stampede of slaves through Virginia.” (“Telegraph Notice,” Quincy IL Whig<\/em>, June 1, 1861)<\/li>\n
- \u201cWe have been very anxious to know, upon what authority out Missouri neighbors charge that slave stampedes originate in Quincy.\u201d (\u201cSlave Stampede,\u201d Quincy IL Whig, <\/em>August 5, 1854)<\/li>\n
- \u201cStampede of Slaves from South Carolina.\u201d (“Southern Conciliation,” Quincy IL Whig<\/em>, March 30, 1861)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t