Robin and Polly Holmes were African Americans who were being held in bondage in the state of Oregon. Slaveholder Nathaniel Ford arrived in Oregon in 1845, bringing the Holmes couple with him. Ford had acquired the Holmes as slaves while he served as sheriff of Howard County, Missouri, in 1841. He had promised to grant […]

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