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Source citation
"The Holmes' Hole Slave Case," Boston (MA) Herald, October 3, 1854, p. 1.
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Boston (MA) Herald
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The Holmes' Hole Slave Case
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1
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Newspaper
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Exact
Transcriber
Zak Rosenberg
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as true to the original written document as possible. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
THE HOLMES' HOLE SLAVE CASE. From the Vineyard Gazette we learn the particulars of the escape of the slaves from the barque Franklin, from Jacksonville, Fla., for Bath. It will be remembered that the Franklin was obliged to put into Holmes' Hole on account of heavy weather, and the captain made efforts to deliver the slave into the hands of the proper authorities, but he decamped from the vessel in one of the boats. The slave secreted himself in Gay Head Swamp, where he remained several days. The facts came to the knowledge of two women of Holmes' Hole who at once set about securing the liberty of the slave. They proceeded in a wagon to the swamp, provided with female apparel, and searching out the concealed negro, they rigged him out in the woman's dress and bonnet, and taking him in the waggon drove to Manainshe Bits, where a boat was waiting which conveyed the whole party to New Bedford. The sheriff was on the shore just in season to see the boat put off. From New Bedford the negro was forwarded to Canada. The names of the female conductors on the underground Railroad are not given.