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Rayner describes a 17-day journey with his family from Raleigh to Baltimore to Wheeling to Cincinnati to Louisville to Nashville, avoiding Pittsburgh for danger of carrying slaves through region, meets up with Maury County friends George and Lucius…

Paul writes to his father in Raleigh that he has just left his slaves beyond Boone's Station after spending two nights with them at the start of their march to Alabama. He has attempted to set up a system that will organize their encampments. Mr.…