{"id":763,"date":"2018-12-22T22:58:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/?p=763"},"modified":"2023-08-05T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T18:10:12","slug":"database-report-black-abolitionist-papers-and-black-abolitionist-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/database-report-black-abolitionist-papers-and-black-abolitionist-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Database Report: Black Abolitionist Papers and Black Abolitionist Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_769\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-769\" class=\" wp-image-769\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Our-Detroit-Letter-300x89.png\" alt=\"Stampede article, Weekly Anglo-African, October 7, 1859\" width=\"465\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Our-Detroit-Letter-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Our-Detroit-Letter-768x228.png 768w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Our-Detroit-Letter-624x186.png 624w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Our-Detroit-Letter.png 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weekly Anglo-African, October 7, 1859<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Search Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search conducted by Amanda Donoghue on Dec. 20<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keywords: \u00a0stampede, exodus, group slave escape, Missouri escape<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total results: Black Abolitionist Papers (BAP) = 6, Black Abolitionist Archive (BAA) = 1<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Results<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA Cincinnati paper of the 28th ult says: A stampede of slaves took place on the evening of the 27th-the whereabouts of several of the fugitives having been discovered here, officers at noon today proceeded to make arrests-upon approaching the house where the slaves were secreted, the latter fired, wounding two or three spectators, but not severely. One slave woman, finding escape impossible, cut the throats of her children, killing one instantly, and severely wounding two others: six of the fugitives were apprehended, and eight are said to have escaped.\u201d (Editorial, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provincial Freedom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Toronto, February 2, 1856)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA number of fugitives, I have been informed-fifteen in number-have just passed through from Detroit into Canada. Quite a stampede.\u201d (Our Detroit Letter,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weekly Anglo-African,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New York, NY, October 7, 1859, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Abolitionist Papers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Brown\u2019s raid at Harper\u2019s Ferry: \u201cIt seems to have been at the outset, an attempt to procure a large stampede of slaves, and to have grown, by force of circumstances, into an invasion of these United States and of the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u201d (\u201cThe Emeute at Harper\u2019s Ferry,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weekly Anglo-African<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, New York, NY, October 22, 1859, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Abolitionist Papers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA colored man named Harris, and his wife and two children were arrested here this morning, on a warrant issued by the United States Commissioner Conneau, and sent by special train to Springfield, where they will be examined tomorrow. The man is claimed by Mr. Patterson, of St. Louis County, MO\u201d (\u201cA Carbonari Wanted,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weekly Anglo-African<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, New York, NY, April 13, 1861, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Abolitionist Archive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[In 1843] Our next undertaking was a regular stampede from Maryland. We met at Banning\u2019s Bridge, and mustered seventy strong at starting, but through some misunderstanding the wrong road was taken, and consequently they were tracked, and after a severe encounter, with the loss of three killed and many wounded, they were forced to surrender to superior numbers, who were well armed. When the return caravan passed through Washington a perfect panic prevailed among the slaves; and of the free colored people there were many who left for fear of the threats which were being made against them carried out.\u201d (\u201cRecollections from the Underground Railroad,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Elevator<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, San Francisco, CA, September 22, 1865, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Abolitionist Papers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>BAP includes excerpts from Martin Delany&#8217;s unfinished novel\u00a0<em>Blake\u00a0<\/em>(1859, 1861-62) that includes a reference at the beginning of chapter 30 to slave stampedes:\u00a0 &#8220;The absence of Mammy Judy, Daddy Joe, Charles, and little Tony, on the return early Monday morning of Colonel Franks and lady from the country, unmistakably proved the escape of their slaves, and the further proof of the exit of &#8216;squire Potter&#8217;s Andy and Beckwith&#8217;s Clara, with the remembrance of the stampede a few months previously, required no further confirmation of the fact, when the neighborhood again was excited to ferment.&#8221; [NOTE:\u00a0 Delany serialized Blake at first in the <em>Afro-American Magazine<\/em> in\u00a01859 &#8211;that was the version contained within BAP]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Select Images:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-763 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/database-report-black-abolitionist-papers-and-black-abolitionist-archive\/our-detroit-letter\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Our-Detroit-Letter-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stampede article, Weekly Anglo-African, October 7, 1859\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-769\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-769'>\n\t\t\t\tWeekly Anglo-African, October 7, 1859\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/database-report-black-abolitionist-papers-and-black-abolitionist-archive\/1861-04-13-nyc-weekly-anglo-african-a-carbonari-wantedblackabolitionistarchive-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/1861-04-13-NYC-Weekly-Anglo-African-A-Carbonari-WantedBlackAbolitionistArchive-1-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stampede article, Weekly Anglo African, April 13, 1861\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-770\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-770'>\n\t\t\t\tWeekly Anglo African, April 13, 1861\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/database-report-black-abolitionist-papers-and-black-abolitionist-archive\/recollections\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Recollections-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stampede article, The Elevator, September 22, 1865\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-771\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-771'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Elevator, September 22, 1865\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/database-report-black-abolitionist-papers-and-black-abolitionist-archive\/emeute\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Emeute-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"stampede article, Weekly Anglo-African, October 22, 1859\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-772\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-772'>\n\t\t\t\tWeekly Anglo-African, October 22, 1859\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/database-report-black-abolitionist-papers-and-black-abolitionist-archive\/editorial\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2018\/12\/Editorial-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"stampede article, Provincial Freedom, February 2, 1856\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-773\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-773'>\n\t\t\t\tProvincial Freedom, February 2, 1856\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><b>General Notes<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Abolitionist Papers (BAP) is a subscription Pro-Quest database that is available to Dickinson College students.\u00a0 Black Abolitionist Archive (BAA) is available to the public for free through University of Detroit Mercy [<a href=\"http:\/\/research.udmercy.edu\/find\/special_collections\/digital\/baa\/\">WEB<\/a>].<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BAP is the larger, more comprehensive collection (over 15,000 items), but BAA director, Roy Finkenbine, was part of the editorial team at BAP, which includes a printed five-volume collection as well as a microfilm series (and now database).\u00a0 BAP includes black abolitionist newspaper editorials, speeches, meeting and convention materials, and selective private correspondence. BAA offers about 800 published speeches and selected newspaper articles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five articles were found using the term \u201cstampede\u201d to refer to the &#8220;colonization&#8221; movement of free blacks moving to Haiti or Africa to escape the risk of being enslaved or re-enslaved.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search Summary Search conducted by Amanda Donoghue on Dec. 20 Keywords: \u00a0stampede, exodus, group slave escape, Missouri escape Total results: Black Abolitionist Papers (BAP) = 6, Black Abolitionist Archive (BAA) = 1 Results \u201cA Cincinnati paper of the 28th ult says: A stampede of slaves took place on the evening of the 27th-the whereabouts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-sources","tag-primary-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}