Beginning Date
Friday, July 25, 1856
Starting Point
On Friday night, July 25, 1856, an enslaved man and an enslaved woman, who local newspapers did not identify by name, escaped from slaveholder John Muellberger's farm. The St. Louis Democrat reported that the two freedom seekers had reached Illinois.
Escape Numbers
2
Outcome
Unknown
Notes on Sources
"Runnaway Slaves," St. Louis (MO) Democrat, July 29, 1856