@article{925296,
      author = {Churchill, Robert H.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/925296},
      title = {The underground railroad and the geography of violence in  antebellum America /},
      abstract = {"One summer night in 1845 thirteen slaves escaped from a  plantation in northern Kentucky and ran for the Ohio River,  led by Louis Talbert. They had planned to cross the Ohio on  a raft, but building the craft took longer than expected,  and only half of the band had made the passage before  daylight. The delay of a day to bring the others over the  river under cover of darkness cost them dearly. Their  escape was now common knowledge on both banks of the river,  and the underemployed white men of the area scoured the  northern bank in hopes of a sizeable reward from their  claimants. Once they were all across the river, they were  unable to travel far before daylight forced them to go to  ground again. As they had now been forty-eight hours  without eating, some of the party went to a nearby farm  house to purchase food. Unfortunately this desperate act  revealed their location to the various slave catching  posses scouring the countryside. Slave catchers soon gave  chase and the party of fugitives scattered, but most were  recaptured. Talbert and three others managed to avoid  capture, and slowly made their way overland to Newport, IN,  a well-known abolitionist stronghold and center of the  Underground Railroad. Quaker Underground activist Levi  Coffin took in Talbert and his companions and facilitated  their travel further north to Canada"--},
      recid = {925296},
      pages = {xiii, 256 pages :},
}