New Lisbon (OH) Anti-Slavery Bugle, "Slaves in Virginia," April 25, 1857

   SLAVES IN VIRGINIA.––The present price of negroes is altogether too high to justify the application of such costly labor to the exhausted land of Virginia. Accordingly, the papers inform us of a negro stampede from all parts of the states––the negro trade being exceedingly brisk, and many masters moving off with their force to escape Virginia executions, and all in hopes to apply their black labor, more profitably to a less exhausted soil.