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The Union Flag (Jonesborough, TN)

July 17, 1868

Information Wanted!

Information is wanted in regard to the whereabouts of Thomas Russel (colored,) who was taken away in 1865, by a rebel Lieutenant, to Richmond, Va., since which time he has not been heard from.

His mother will be thankful if the news-papers throughout the country will copy this notice. Address Louisa West,…

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The Union Flag (Jonesborough, TN)

June 5, 1868

Information Wanted!
Information is wanted in regard to the
whereabouts of Thomas Russel (colored,)
who was taken away in 1865, by a rebel
Lieutenant, to Richmond, Va., since which
time he has not been heard from.
His mother will be thankful if the newspapers
throughout the country will copy this …

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Evening Star (Washington, DC)

October 20, 1863

STRAYED AWAY OR WAS TAKEN FROM HIS
home, my son, ROBERT HENRY GREEN; had
on when he left home grey pants, brown yarn
jacket, and white yarn stockings; he is about five
years old; he is a yellow mulatto color. Any person
that can give information, will receive my sincere
thanks and liberal reward from me, his father. at
503 N street, between…

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Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)

January 1, 1898

FINDS LONG LOST SON
DOWEN YOUNG MEETS HIS MOTHER AFTER 36 YEARS

A Mother Sold and Separated From her Family in 1861, Found and Presented to her Son as a Christmas gift in 1897.

The happiest Christmas in all the great city of Chicago was, at the modest home of Dowen Young, No. 3142 Fifth avenue. It was a reunion of a mother and son torn apart…

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The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

February 26, 1884

I wish to inquire for my people
who lived east of Vicksburg, Miss.,
about the second or third year of
the war. I was then six or seven
years of age, and was taken from
home by some Southern soldiers
who brought me to Texas, and I
was sold three times. When I was
taken the soldier drew a gun on my
step-father and made him put me…

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