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Deanda Johnson on Slave Stampedes

  • Interviews
    • Richard Blackett on the Fugitive Crisis in the 1850s
    • Roy Finkenbine on the Underground Railroad in the Missouri Borderlands
    • Deanda Johnson on Slave Stampedes
    • Diane Mutti Burke on Slavery in Missouri
    • Lea VanderVelde on Freedom Suits
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    • Compromise of 1850
    • Fugitive Slave Law
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  • Stampede Narratives
    • 1849 Canton Stampede
    • 1852 Ste. Genevieve Stampede
    • 1853 Palmyra Stampede
    • 1854 St. Louis Stampedes
    • 1855 St. Louis Stampede
    • 1859 Kansas Stampede and John Doy Rescue
    • 1859 LaGrange Stampede
    • 1861 Chicago Stampede
    • 1862 Loutre Island Stampede

Dr. Deanda Johnson from the National Park Service Network to Freedom offers background on the evolution of the term "slave stampedes" and how it alters our understanding of the Underground Railroad.

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creative commons icon 2022-23 National Park Service Network to Freedom and House Divided Project at Dickinson College 

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Contact

Director: Matthew Pinsker
House Divided Project
PO Box 1773 / 61 N. West Street
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
Email: hdivided@dickinson.edu
Tel: 717-245-1865

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