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A Southern Planter Sent Three Hunters After A Runaway Girl—By Dawn, Two Had Vanished, Alabama, 1857

When seventeen-year-old enslaved girl named Ada at Silas Crowell's Briar Ridge plantation in Dogwood County, Alabama struck her master's nephew Calvin with a cast-iron ladle in May 1857 after he cornered her in a pantry and attempted to assault her, she fled into the Alabama backwoods with nothing but cornbread and a half-full gourd while three armed hunters—overseer Judd Kellar, farmhand Tom Ricks, and bare-knuckle fighter Abel Hargis—rode after her with bloodhounds through pine forests and into a treacherous swamp where the bog swallowed Abel whole before dawn while Ada navigated a secret network of abolitionists including white farmer Miriam Caldwell and Black Reverend Thaddeus Cole who passed her station to station along the Underground Railroad until she crossed the Ohio River into free soil three weeks later, proving that even in 1857 Alabama where slave catchers offered thousand-dollar rewards and patrols watched every road, a barefoot girl with courage and a community of resisters could escape the system designed to keep her in chains forever.