{"id":489,"date":"2009-10-14T17:33:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-10-10T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T13:28:39","slug":"runaway-slaves-during-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/runaway-slaves-during-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Slaves During the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Runaway Slaves from Wessyngton Plantation 1862-1863<\/p><\/div>\n

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President Lincoln\u2019s Emancipation Proclamation, issued September 22, 1862, declared freedom to slaves in the confederate states that did not return to the control of the Union by January 1, 1863.\u00a0 <\/span>It did not free slaves from the border \u00a0<\/span>states Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Tennessee.\u00a0 <\/span>Many slaves from these states, however, were already free by this time due to self-emancipation\u2500running away or being abandoned by their owners.<\/span><\/p>\n

George A. Washington realized that his slaves would soon be tempted to leave his plantation Wessyngton.\u00a0 <\/span>At the same time the Union Army was recruiting black soldiers, George made an offer to hire some of his slaves for a rate of $10 per month.\u00a0 <\/span>From February through May 1863, twenty-four men agreed to stay on the plantation and work for the offered $10 per month.\u00a0 <\/span>Of those twenty-four, however; eighteen left within a few months.\u00a0 <\/span>The men had worked on the plantation all their lives and no doubt wanted to see what the outside world had to offer and to taste freedom.\u00a0 <\/span>The men must have seen the offered salary as an attempt to keep them on the plantation.\u00a0 <\/span>The above document lists the eighteen individuals who ran away from Wessyngton Plantation from 1862-1863.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 President Lincoln\u2019s Emancipation Proclamation, issued September 22, 1862, declared freedom to slaves in the confederate states that did not return to the control of the Union by January 1, 1863.\u00a0 It did not free slaves from the border \u00a0states Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Tennessee.\u00a0 Many slaves from these states, however, were already free by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,21,18,20,22],"tags":[176,573,285,161,158,63,163,45,286,40,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}