Beginning Date
Sunday, March 15, 1857
Starting Point
Sometime in March 1857, an enslaved man and child escaped from near Columbia in Boone county, Missouri. The editors of the Hannibal Messenger wondered aloud if "they ran off, were persuaded off, or stolen," but suspected that their flight had something to do with a spate of recent horse thefts, and concluded they had been "decoyed off."
Escape Attributes
Single Slaveholder
Women and/or children runaways
Escape Numbers
2
Outcome
Unknown
Notes on Sources
Hannibal MO Messenger, March 26, 1857 (NA)