Charles Owens searching for his brother Harry Bowen. Bowen escaped from his enslavement near St. Francisville, Missouri and emancipated himself in 1859. He presumably went to Chicago and, from there, to Canada.
"Charles Owens searching for his brother Harry Bowen ," Ottumwa Courier (Ottumwa, IA) , January 14, 1869, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed September 19, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/3576
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I was wary of this notice because it seemed plausible that the author was an ally of Bowen's former enslavers. However, both the 1870 and 1880 censuses locate a well-to-do "Mulatto" man named Charles Owens in Wapello County, IA. It seems that Owens understood his best chance of locating his brother was by referencing the very family that had enslaved him. Bowen and the Waylands remained tangled even a decade after Bowen's departure.
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I was wary of this notice because it seemed plausible that the author was an ally of Bowen's former enslavers. However, both the 1870 and 1880 censuses locate a well-to-do "Mulatto" man named Charles Owens in Wapello County, IA. It seems that Owens understood his best chance of locating his brother was by referencing the very family that had enslaved him. Bowen and the Waylands remained tangled even a decade after Bowen's departure.