Beginning Date
Saturday, October 15, 1859
Starting Point
Sometime in October 1859, a group of 26 enslaved people escaped from western Missouri, and were guided by an antislavery operative through Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois, through Chicago and finally to Detroit.
Escape Attributes
UGRR Involvement
Escape Numbers
26
Outcome
Freedom
Notes on Sources
Douglass' Monthly, November 1859 (AA)