Driven later from Shelby County[5] also,
these freedmen finally found homes in Miami County.[7] Then there was
one Saunders, a slaveholder of Cabell County, now West Virginia, who
liberated his slaves and furnished them homes in free territory. They
finally made their way to Cass County, Michigan, where philanthropists
had established a prosperous colored settlement and supplied it
with missionaries and teachers. The slaves of Theodoric H. Gregg
of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, were liberated in 1854 and sent to
Ohio,[7] where some of them were educated.
[Footnote 1: Howe, _Ohio Historical Collections_, p. 356.]
[Footnote 2: _Ibid._, p. 356.]
[Footnote 3: Manuscript in the hands of Dr. J.E. Moreland.]
[Footnote 4: _The African Repository_, vol. xxii., pp. 322-323.]
[Footnote 5: Howe, _Ohio Historical Collections_, p. 465.]
[Footnote 6: _Ibid._, p. 466.]
[Footnote 7: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 723.]
Many free persons of color of Virginia and Kentucky went north about
the middle of the nineteenth century. The immediate cause in Virginia
was the enactment in 1838 of a law prohibiting the return of such
colored students as had been accustomed to go north to attend school
after they were denied this privilege in that State.
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