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Underground Railroad: Dabbs Family

During the original migration, four former slaveholding families trekked alongside recently freed African Americans to the Miller Grove settlement in Pope County, Illinois, in today’s Shawnee National Forest. Joseph Dabbs headed one of the four White families. With the help of Henry Sides, a fellow former slave holder, Joseph purchased the $1,000 bonds to bring each of his manumitted slaves to Illinois as free men, women, and children. Edward (Ned) Dabbs was one of Joseph’s manumitted slaves…

  • Managed by: USDA Forest Service
  • Coordinates: 37.499729, -88.6481272

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