{"id":4515,"date":"2023-04-29T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:33:09","slug":"towers-edward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/towers-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"Towers, Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edward Towers<\/strong> was a slaveholder. When freedom seekers escaped from his farm, Towers hired slave catchers who created mayhem in the town of Redoak, Ohio as they searched for the freedom seekers. Tower&#8217;s son was shot and killed in the clash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/the-underground-railroad-in-the-ohio-river-valley-churchill\/\">Churchill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/slaveholder\/\">Slaveholder \/ Slave catcher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Towers was a slaveholder. When freedom seekers escaped from his farm, Towers hired slave catchers who created mayhem in the town of Redoak, Ohio as they searched for the freedom seekers. Tower&#8217;s son was shot and killed in the clash. ESSAYS: Churchill ROLES: Slaveholder \/ Slave catcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}