Indianapolis / Lawrence / Garden City / St. Louis / Denver / Fort Scott / Vinland / Leavenworth / Vernon / Charles Town / Boston / Oberlin / Kansas City / Quindaro / Manhattan / Ottawa / Harpers Ferry / City / Wakarusa Township / Topeka / New York / /
Company
Institutions Incorporated Companies Manufacturing / Kansas State Printing Company / Lawrence Journal Press / Business Firms Incorporated Companies Manufacturing / Samuel Walker Relief Corp / Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co. / Kansas Tribune / Louisiana State University Press / Kansas Daily Tribune / Kansas State Journal / Kansas City Times / Republican / Syracuse University Press / Hoye Directory Co. / P. T. Foley & Co. / Pilgrim Press / Lawrence’s Kansas State Journal / John Brown / /
Country
Canada / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Judicial Event / /
Facility
Lawrence’s Oak Hill Cemetery / Colored Odd Fellows lodge / Dimery monument / University of Kansas / Fort Leavenworth / Oak Hill Cemetery / Kenneth Spencer Research Library / Lawrence Pub / Eldridge Hotel / Kansas State Printing Plant / Eldridge Hall / University of Massachusetts Press / University of Kansas Libraries / Watkins Community Museum of History / Clinton Cemetery / Maple Grove Cemetery / Vinland Cemetery / /
Holiday
4th of July / Emancipation Day / /
IndustryTerm
food / regular church services / real estate holdings / real estate / /
NaturalFeature
Indies / Missouri River / Kansas River / /
Organization
Lawrence City Council / Union army / Douglas County Genealogical Society / Freedman’s Church / army / General James G. Blunt’s Union army / Baptist Church / Kansas Humanities Council / James H. Lane’s Union / Republican Party / Protestant Episcopal Church / Grand Army / University of Massachusetts Press / Lane’s Brigade / Free State movement / University of Kansas Libraries / James H. Lane’s Union army / Contraband School / Congregational mission / Second Congregational / Social Survey Committee / Ladies Refugee Aid Society / Lawrence’s Grand Army / United States Army / University of Kansas / First Kansas Colored Infantry / Kansas House of Representatives / Kansas Historical Society / Vinland United Methodist Church / Unitarian Church / African American army / St. Luke AME Church / Louisiana State University / Seventy-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry / Syracuse University / Contraband Church / /
Person
William M. Tuttle / Jr. / Anna Langston / Elias Bryant / Tom Berry / Deborah Harvey Green / Nancy Smith / Clinton / Harriet Thompson / Ann E. Hemphill / Troy Strode / George Washington / Gratten Gregg / Sherman Harvey / George Williams / Elias Bradley / Richard J. Hinton / John Copeland / Anthony Stone / Kaethe Schick / William Clarke Quantrill / Alex Copeland / Richard B. Sheridan / John Speer / Terry Rombeck / James H. Lane / Ishmael Keith / Allen Harvey / Frances Dillard / Alex Gregg / Brooks Harvey / Charles Henry Langston / Judy Sweets / Richard Cordley / Henry C. Copeland / Sharon Ramczyk / Henry Fuel / Edward Henderson / Dorothy Henri Harvey / H. D. Fisher / Harriet Harvey / Harriet Harper / Jordan Walker / Frederick D. G. Harvey / David Harvey / Libbie Dillard / Ezekiel Dimery / Deborah Dandridge / Jimmie Johnson / Jesse Dillard / John L. Waller / Abraham Lincoln / Gabriel Gray / Van Buren / James G. Blunt / Roger D. Cunningham / Rebecca Brooks Harvey / Lemuel King / B. Jean Snedeger / Brenda Pitts / John Brown / Daniel Stone / Dudley Taylor Cornish / Anthony Oldham / Stephen B. Oates / Glen W. Fisher / William Harper / Hugh Dunn Fisher / William Gray / William A. Doback / Thomas C. Cox / Katie H. Armitage / James Sutherland / Tom Berry Case / Mary Oldham / Harvey Family / Quantrill Raid / Stephen Ogden / James M. Williams / Charles H. Langston / Libbie Copeland / Debby Lowery / James R. Shortridge / Edward Harvey / Moses Jenkins / Mary Dimery / John P. Tharp / Scott / Jim Givens / Harriet Gleed / Sam Walker / Quantrill Raid blacksmith / Frederick Gregg / Alice / Joseph Bowers / Dorothy L. Pennington / Deborah Barker / Andrew Williams / /
Position
physician / General / teacher / farmer / Congregational minister / music teacher / author / official / Chaplain Fisher / Professor / midwife / laborer and landscape gardener / editor / Miner / farmer / minister / carpenter / messenger / officer / Harper / route Congregational minister / professor of economics / Colonel / teacher / leader / journalist / Adjutant General / lawyer / President / Adjutant General of the State of Kansas / first sergeant / gardener / Supervisor / King / policeman / businessmen / constable / One of the founders / teamster/porter carpenter / porter /janitor / Chaplain / blacksmith / year Chaplain / preacher / Fisher / First Lieutenant / activist / Sergeant / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Indiana / Louisiana / South Carolina / Colorado / Kentucky / Illinois / Jackson County / Tennessee / Arkansas / Virginia / Alabama / Douglas County / Nineteenth-Century Douglas County / The Douglas County / Michigan / Missouri / Georgia / Culpepper County / Kansas / Shawnee County / Platte County / Leavenworth County / North Carolina / /
PublishedMedium
State Journal / Kansas City Times / Lawrence Journal-World / /
Region
northwest Arkansas / West Indies / eastern Kansas / central Missouri / /
“Seeking A Home Where He Himself Is Free” Rebecca Brooks Harvey and her children reached Douglas County, Kansas, in January 1863 after escaping slavery in northwest Arkansas. Once in Kansas Rebecca reunited with her