Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #98 from Abstracts from William Still's Underground Railroad

Traveler's Names Eliza Jane Johnson
Age 23
Description Tall, dark, young woman
Alias
Origin- Town/City between Concord and Georgetown
Origin- County Sussex Co.
Origin- State Delaware
Destination Canada
Birthplace
Slaveowner's Name Sally Spicer
Chapter Title Five Passengers, 1857
Page Number 418
Other Travelers Eliza Jane Johnson, Harriet Steward and her daughter, Mary Eliza, William Cole, Hanson Hall
Other Conductors
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Method of Travel
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Full Narrative ELIZA JANE was a tall, dark, young woman, about twenty-three years of age, and had been held to service by a widow woman, named Sally Spiser, who was " anything but a good woman." The place of her habitation was in Delaware, between Concord and Georgetown. Eliza Jane's excuse for leaving was this : She charged her mistress with trying to work her to death, and with unkind treatment generally. When times became so hard that she could not stand her old mistress "Sally" any longer, she " took out."

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