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| | Fugitive Slaves |
 | | On June 11, 1798, for instance, “Negro Ester and her child” were brought in by Moses Cox “on suspicion of being a runaway from a certain Charles McDonnal in the state of Virginia near Winchester.” They were discharged on June 26, “and taken away by her master to Whom she Confessed she belonged.” |
 | | His docket, too, was marked “Taken away by his master.” A slave couple named Frazer and their two children, along with another slave woman, were taken March 24, 1804, and returned to their owner in New Castle County, Delaware. |
 | | The accepted estimate of runaways escaping into the North was 1,000 per year, nearly all of them from the Border States. |
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