New Lisbon (OH) Anti-Slavery Bugle, "Slave Stampede," October 1, 1853

SLAVE STAMPEDE. – The Cincinnati Commerical says there was a serious negro stampede from plantations sixty miles back of the river, in Kentucky, on Saturday night. Of eleven slaves who decamped. five succeeded in crossing the Ohio, a few miles below this city, yesterday. Their pursuers were in town last night, but learning that the fugitives had got twelve hours start, gave up the chase.