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Louisa Pipkin (b. circa 1820 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-6067
Fled from slavery, Baltimore City, Maryland, 1853

Biography:

“Six very clever-looking passengers, all in one party from Baltimore, Md., [arrived] the first Sunday in April, 1853,” reported William Still in his Underground Railroad (1872) .  Among these were Jefferson Pipkin, age forty-three and his wife, Louisa, age thrity-three.  The couple ran away from their Baltimore owner, W.B. Muse, on April 3, 1853.  Reaching Canada, the Pipkins reportedly appealed to Still for assistance in recovering the children left behind and far-flung by enslavement across the state.  Muse put up a two hundred dollar reward for the couple.

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