Albion, Grayville and all of Edwards County were proud of their union and anti-slavery positions. The March 3, 1887 edition of The Albion Journal reprinted a recent Grayville Independent reprint of an original advertisement placed in the Grayville paper on July 14, 1855. Almost six years before the civil war. Abraham Lincoln was a failed politician and former congressman, who was doing quite well as a lawyer for railroad interests in Illinois.
The owner of an escaped slave from New Madrid, Missouri offered $300 reward money for the arrest and detention of an escaped slave. That’s probably half of the Dixon family’s net worth at the time, by the way.
Mulatto usually means a half-Caucasian, half negro slave which was often the result of sexual relations between a white owner and a negro slave woman. “Me too” hadn’t quite reached the plantations yet.
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