Winston-Salem (NC) People's Press, "Negro Stealing," December 7, 1855

         NEGRO STEALING.

   The late stampede of negroes form Norfolk and Richmond to the Northern Ports, will, no doubt induce the Legislature to devise some ways and means for the better protection of that kind of property. Close upon the heels of the news that seventeen had escaped from Norfolk we learn that eleven have left Richmond. It is estimated that the value of those that ran off from Norfolk was some thirty thousand dollars. The eleven that ran off from Richmond cannot be worth much less than fifteen thousand dollars. It thus appears that in a single week the two cities of Richmond and Norfolk have lost property to the amount of forty five thousand dollars through the plots of abolition incendiaries.