Despite the danger, we continued to run towards freedom. We ran and joined the union troops, we ran towards Texas then into Mexico, we ran out west, we ran north and then you have some like Lunn who ran south to find his wife at William Spell’s plantation in Desoto parish.

advertisement source: The South-western. (Shreveport, La.), 22 July 1857. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016483/1857-07-22/ed-1/seq-3/>