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Running For Liberty, Without Legs

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
February
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Acorrespondent sends us uu amuáing account of the ruanin-g offa legless slavc. ífe belono-ed to a man nameJ George Neale, in Parkersburg, (Vo,) and had liiá lega hazen off in an unsuceessfiil altempt ia early hfe to gai hts Jiberty. Iliá wife and Uwee chüdren, and n fom ale conipaiíioíi. left n companj, aítractcd perhaps by lte nortlicü-n Ugtyta and were successiul!, otter several vc-y uarroiv escapes, 'm reacting the shore. Jcss was ihreatened, that ihe did not teil whilher hk wife had gone, he should have 100 lashes. Ho ite gathcred up his dudd oud vliwn asked where he was gour, aaswcrc(J, 'I cm going to lea ve these diggins.' Not supuosing-that a man without legs would ondertake to run away, they did not nttempt to stop iiiin. Aw;iy he went to the river, got into a skiff, and rowed to the Ohio shore. And theo they began to think it was 110 joke, and gave chase. But t!try could not catch him. All the negro hunters of Vuginia' and the spies and inlormers of Ohio could nol overtakc a maa without legs, for

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News