The North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.), 22 November 1848.
Rufus W. Edmondson, who lived in what was then far southeastern Edgecombe County, near Stantonsburg, sold a man named Cager to William T. Hopkins, who appears to have lived in Wake County, North Carolina. In October 1848, Cager stole away — perhaps to return “home.”
Even 176 years later this story, and countless other similar stories , still pains my very soul. …..a human being just wanting to be free from capture by another human being.