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Samuel Slaughter

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Samuel Slaughter

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
20 Dec 1881 (aged 74)
Burial
Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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The Slave Hunter: On June 2, 1843, nine slaves working on the property of Ruel Daggs (born in Virginia and a farmer) near Luray, MO left the homestead. Daggs had not been mean to them but he was living in an area where some people frowned on slavery and he was thinking of selling them into the South. The slaves said they were afraid of being sold and decided to head north to freedom instead. Daggs and his sons hired two slave hunters to track them and bring them back.

One of the men was James McClure and the other was SAMUEL SLAUGHTER, a Virginian and farmer living in Section 33 of Harrison Township in Lee County. They followed the wagon trails which lead to Salem, IA where they found themselves among the Quakers, who would not allow the men to take the slaves back to Missouri because there were no arrest 9 warrants. Eventually, five of them had escaped to freedom and the other four ended up back in Missouri. Daggs decided to sue the Quakers because he said he had lost too many hours of work from their absence. Daggs was awarded $2900 from several of the Friends but never collected any of it because the ones who had been involved had willed or given all their possessions away so there was nothing left.

SAMUEL SLAUGHTER raised a large family in a heavy wooded area where he watched for slaves coming north out of Missouri. The census of 1860 shows him with a lot of wealth but in the 1870 census, which was after the Civil War, he has very little. He has many descendants living in Harrison Township today.
The Slave Hunter: On June 2, 1843, nine slaves working on the property of Ruel Daggs (born in Virginia and a farmer) near Luray, MO left the homestead. Daggs had not been mean to them but he was living in an area where some people frowned on slavery and he was thinking of selling them into the South. The slaves said they were afraid of being sold and decided to head north to freedom instead. Daggs and his sons hired two slave hunters to track them and bring them back.

One of the men was James McClure and the other was SAMUEL SLAUGHTER, a Virginian and farmer living in Section 33 of Harrison Township in Lee County. They followed the wagon trails which lead to Salem, IA where they found themselves among the Quakers, who would not allow the men to take the slaves back to Missouri because there were no arrest 9 warrants. Eventually, five of them had escaped to freedom and the other four ended up back in Missouri. Daggs decided to sue the Quakers because he said he had lost too many hours of work from their absence. Daggs was awarded $2900 from several of the Friends but never collected any of it because the ones who had been involved had willed or given all their possessions away so there was nothing left.

SAMUEL SLAUGHTER raised a large family in a heavy wooded area where he watched for slaves coming north out of Missouri. The census of 1860 shows him with a lot of wealth but in the 1870 census, which was after the Civil War, he has very little. He has many descendants living in Harrison Township today.

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