Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-07
A WHITE SLAVE RECLAIMED OWING
TO MRS. STOVES KEY TO UNCLE
TOMS CABIN.

Benz. Davis & Bros, of this city, received n few
days since, a letter from q person named Miles
Owen, which contains the following statement:
In 1884, one German Goodloe sold to II. 7. I.
Miller, in Natchez, then Postmaster there, a yellow
woman and her child. When Miller died, the
slaves became the property Of Owen by purchase
In 1889, Owen sold the woman, whose name was
Atwell, and in lS47, he sold the buy TO g. ID.
Ragland, of Alabama. by whom he was taught
the trade of brick mason. In 1862, the boy ran
off from Ragland and went to Pi tsburgh, where
he assumed the name of George Washington, pas
sed himself off as a white man, and married a
white woman, by whom he had a child.
A man named Shaw. also a mason, who had
worked in Alabama, saw the boy in Pittsburgh,
but could not place him until be read Ragland's
advertisement in Mrs. Slows Key to Uncle Toms
Cabin" when he at once recognized him as Rag
lands property. Shaw Immediately communicat.
ed with Ragland, and received instructions to
watch the boys movements, which he did for
five years.
Last winter he missed him, but on enquiry
found he was in st. Louis, Missouri. He imme-
diately proceeded to Alabama, had an interview
with Ragland, who sent q man with him TO st.
Louis. When they got there they found that the
boy had gone to Brunswick in the same state,
where they followed and succeeded in arrestiug
him.. They then took him to Alabama to his mas
ter. ShaS returned to Pittsburgh. but immedia
tely on arriving there the boys wife had him ar,
rested "for attem pting to decoy off and carry into
bondage her husband"
He was thrown into Jail in default of finding
bail to the amount of 50, 900, and has been there
since last march. The penalty of the crime with
which he is charged is q fine of $4,000 and con-
fnement in the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than twenty years, and he will suffer
this unless he can clearly show that the boy was
a slave.
The object of Owen writing to tho Messrs.
Davis is to find some trace of Goodloe, and as
certain from him from whom he purchased the
woman Atweil and her child, and procure some
witness from among the family who owned them,
who will 60 to Pittsburgh in October to testify in
behalf of Shaw. The boy was too small in 1884
to remember anything of his master, and it is not
known whether the woman Atwell is alive.
Owen says that he attended the trial of Shaw
in Pittsburgh in July, but ii has adjourned. All
The expenses of the witness will be paid.
This kidnapped white man was known in Pitts.
burgb by the name of Farris, and Shaw is in the
Pittsburgh Jail, awaiting his trial. It is to be
hoped meme Of the efforts of his agent, Owens, will
be able to deliver him from the just penalty Of
his crime of Kidnapping. The Pittsburgh Ga
zette commenting upon this article from the
South, says:
Do not these soul hunters know that if they
could prove Farris q slave a dozen times over, it
would not relieve Shaw from the crime nor save
him from the punishment OF having stolen a man
and carried kim away into slavery, upon whose
case not even a slave. catching commissioner had
passed ? If Farris had been surrendered under
the Infamous fugitive law, into the hands of Shaw
and Shaw had then taken him into slavery, he
might have continued to be as contemplate as you
please, but he would at the same time have been
safe-infamous and contented.