"Fugitive Slave Case Was Tried" - A Daily Gate City Article, April 13, 1915

    article from The Daily Gate City newspaper from Keokuk, Iowa about a fugitive slave case
    Courtesy of Library of Congress, "Fugitive Slave Case Was Tried," The Daily Gate City, pp. 5, 13 April 1915

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    This article was published in The Daily Gate City newspaper of Keokuk, Iowa, in 1915, about trial held in Burlington in 1850. The sum of $10,000 in damages was asked by plaintiff, Buel Daggs, as compensation for the services of nine slaves who escaped from Missouri into Iowa and, it was claimed, were assisted to elude their owner by defendants. Specifically, Quakers of Salem, Iowa, were believed to have assisted the slaves through the Underground Railroad network. 

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    Source-Dependent Questions

    • Describe the scene at the Quaker Church. What was happening when Father Baldwin arrived?
    • Describe what emotions the slaves must have faced that night, and proved evidence from the document supporting your descriptions.

    Citation Information 

    "Fugitive Slave Case Was Tried," The Daily Gate City, pp. 5, 13 April 1915. Courtesy of Library of Congress

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