{"id":998,"date":"2019-04-03T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/?p=998"},"modified":"2023-08-05T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T18:03:08","slug":"database-report-making-of-america-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/database-report-making-of-america-cornell\/","title":{"rendered":"Database Report -Making of America (Cornell and Michigan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1015\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-9.32.31-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1015\" class=\" wp-image-1015\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-9.32.31-AM-300x91.png\" alt=\"Stampede Report Missouri \" width=\"395\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-9.32.31-AM-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-9.32.31-AM.png 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR Series 1, vol. 22, pt. 2, 746<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Search Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search conducted by Cooper Wingert between March 29-April 4, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Keywords: &#8220;slave stampede,&#8221; &#8220;stampede of slaves,&#8221; &#8220;stampede of negroes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Totals: 11 hits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In December 1863, Col. James McFerran of the 1st Missouri State Militia Cavalry reported a &#8220;small stampede of negroes from the vicinity of Lexington, [Missouri] carrying away two horses, which have not been recovered at last accounts.&#8221; (<em>The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies<\/em>, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881-1901),\u00a0Series 1, vol. 22, pt. 2, 746; hereinafter cited as <em>OR<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Recounting the December 1858 escape of some 11 slaves from western Missouri, with the aid of abolitionist <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5216\">John Brown<\/a>, an 1863 book described &#8220;the panic which followed this invasion.&#8221; Fearing &#8220;a general stampede of slaves,&#8221; it noted, &#8220;the two counties of Bates and Vernon were soon quite cleared of their &#8216;chattels,&#8217; which were sent into the interior or shipped to the South for sale.&#8221; (Orville J. Victor, <em>History of American Conspiracies; A Record of treason, rebellion, &amp;.c. in the United States of America, from 1760 to<\/em> <em>1860<\/em>, (New York: J.D. Torrey, 1863),\u00a0516)<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;slave stampede&#8221; was also used by New York Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6557\">William H. Seward<\/a> in May 1860, during his testimony before a Senate committee investigating the Harpers Ferry insurrection. He reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5670\">Hugh Forbes<\/a>, a one-time associate of John Brown, had &#8220;suggested the getting up of a stampede of slaves secretly on the borders of Kansas, in Missouri, which Brown disapproved.&#8221; <em>(Report of the Select Committee of the Senate Appointed\u00a0to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper&#8217;s<\/em> <em>Ferry<\/em>, (Washington: n.p., 1860), 254)<\/li>\n<li>In 1853, the American &amp; Foreign Anti-Slavery Society reprinted two advertisements using the term &#8220;stampede&#8221; to illustrate the increasing number of escaping slaves. A &#8220;negro stampede&#8221; from Kentucky, reportedly inspired by\u00a0<em>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/em>, had seen &#8220;twenty-five negroes&#8221; escape from Boone County, Kentucky. (<em>The Thirtieth Annual Report of the American &amp;\u00a0Foreign Anti-Slavery Society,\u00a0Presented at New-York, May 11,<\/em> <em>1853<\/em>, (New York: Lewis J. Bates, 1853), 144)<\/li>\n<li>Writing to Brig. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in November 1861, Brig. Gen. Alexander McCook at Camp Nevin, Kentucky, reported that ten &#8220;contraband negroes&#8221; had made their way behind his lines, while also informing him that &#8220;there will be a general stampede of slaves from the other side of Green River.&#8221; (<em>OR\u00a0<\/em>Series 1, vol. 4, 337).<\/li>\n<li>In 1861, the periodical <em>The Living Age<\/em> reprinted\u00a0a speech by Edward Everett, in which the noted orator predicted that should secession be allowed to stand undisputed, conflict would still arise. &#8220;A general stampede of slaves shall take place along the Border,&#8221; Everett asserted, &#8220;with no thought of rendition,&#8221; sparking a &#8220;Border-war&#8221; spanning &#8220;a frontier of fifteen hundred miles.&#8221; (<em>The Living Age<\/em>, vol. 70 (August 1861), 283)<\/li>\n<li>An 1863 book castigating the South and secession reprinted an 1862 article from the\u00a0<em>Christian Banner<\/em>, entitled &#8220;Stampede of Slaves.&#8221; The article described &#8220;thousands of negroes in Virginia&#8221; who were &#8220;taking leave of their owners.&#8221; The book also reprinted another article from the same newspaper, referring to &#8220;the stampede of negroes&#8221; from Virginia which &#8220;continues with increased numbers.&#8221; (James W. Hunnicutt, <em>The Conspiracy Unveiled:\u00a0the South Sacrificed, or The Horrors of Secession<\/em>, (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1863), 369, 445-446)<\/li>\n<li>Confederates also used the term &#8220;stampede&#8221; in their dispatches. Writing from Alexandria, Louisiana in early February 1864, Maj. Gen. <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6686\">Richard Taylor<\/a> discussed hiring (or renting) slaves from their owners to serve as laborers for Confederate forces in the region. However, Taylor was determined to &#8220;obtain the consent of owners,&#8221; otherwise he predicted, &#8220;there will be a general stampede, and we will be held to be the cause of it.&#8221; (<em>OR\u00a0<\/em>Series 1, vol. 34, pt. 2, 939)<\/li>\n<li>The novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6663\">Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/a> used the term &#8220;stampede of negroes&#8221; in her 1873 publication,\u00a0<em>Palmetto-Leaves<\/em>. (Harriet Beecher Stowe,\u00a0<em>Palmetto-Leaves<\/em>, (Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1873), 271)<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;slave stampede&#8221; also appeared in an 1894 book by abolitionist <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5902\">Richard Hinton<\/a>. Recalling a conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6014\">John Henry Kagi<\/a> prior to\u00a0John Brown&#8217;s slave insurrection at Harpers Ferry, Hinton noted that the first stage of the plan was intended to appear as &#8220;a slave stampede, or local outbreak at most.&#8221; (Richard J. Hinton,\u00a0<em>John Brown and His Men: With Some Account of the Roads they traveled to reach Harper&#8217;s Ferry<\/em>, (New York: Funk &amp; Wagnalls, 1894), 673)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Select Images<\/strong><\/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-998 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-making-of-america-cornell\/screen-shot-2019-04-05-at-10-46-01-am\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-10.46.01-AM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stampede report\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1020\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1020'>\n\t\t\t\tOR Series 1, vol. 4, 337\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-making-of-america-cornell\/screen-shot-2019-04-05-at-10-40-40-am\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-10.40.40-AM-150x146.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stampede account\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1019\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1019'>\n\t\t\t\tHunnicutt, The Conspiracy Unveiled, 445. \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-making-of-america-cornell\/screen-shot-2019-04-05-at-10-52-50-am\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-05-at-10.52.50-AM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Stampede Confederate report\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1022\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1022'>\n\t\t\t\tOR Series 1, vol. 34, pt. 2, 939\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>General Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.library.cornell.edu\/moa_new\/\">Cornell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/moagrp\/\">Michigan<\/a> Making of America databases are free and available to the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search Summary Search conducted by Cooper Wingert between March 29-April 4, 2019. Keywords: &#8220;slave stampede,&#8221; &#8220;stampede of slaves,&#8221; &#8220;stampede of negroes.&#8221; Totals: 11 hits Top Results In December 1863, Col. James McFerran of the 1st Missouri State Militia Cavalry reported a &#8220;small stampede of negroes from the vicinity of Lexington, [Missouri] carrying away two horses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-998","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\/998","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}