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1859 LaGrange Stampede video

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This video highlights a successful stampede of more than ten freedom seekers from LaGrange, Missouri who eventually joined up in Chicago with about another twenty more runaways from three states, before they presumably escaped to Canada.  Yet all of this happened in November 1859, just weeks after John Brown’s failed raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. (3:05 min)

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Director: Matthew Pinsker
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PO Box 1773 / 61 N. West Street
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Carlisle, PA 17013
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