Adam Crosswhite. He and his wife, Sarah, an enslaved couple from Carroll County, escaped to Michigan, where slave catchers attempted to return them. Henry Bibb's account of the trial, here, and an eyewitness account is here. Yet another nice account of the incident is a pdf here.

 

Wheeling (or Whelan) Gaunt, born into slavery in Carrollton in 1812, bought his freedom, and moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he became wealthy buying and selling real estate. In his will, he left 9 acres, the income off of which was to buy the widows of Yellow Springs 25 pounds of flour each Christmas.  That was in 1894.  To this day, every Christmas, they still distribute flour. Follow the links on this page to learn a lot more about both Gaunt, and his tradition. The plaque shown is from the Yellow Springs Park.
There's wonderful article by Steve Flairty about Wheeling Gaunt at this site.
A news item about Gaunt, printed during his lifetime.

 

Frankfort's Tri-Weekly Kentucky Yeoman, May 16, 1854

 

Western Spy, August 29, 1807

Nathan and Pliasant sold.

Sterling sold.

Nelson sold.

 

The diary of Virginia Craig details the attack by rebels of the African-Americans on her property.	The estate settlement of Elizabeth Craig lists the dispositions of her slaves.
Paulina and Peter, sold.	$100 reward for the runaway Spencer.
Her diary also lists this Civil War attack by the guerilla Jesse on the slaves of the Craig's.	1862 Ghent slavery escape.
Enslaved woman of Vice-President Johnson's passes thru Carrollton?	Ghent's Marshall Taylor.
The Boone County Library has a web site detailing known escapes of enslaved people from Northern Kentucky. The Trimble-Carroll-Owen only list is here.
A receipt for a slave sale in Carrollton is here.	Carrollton slave chaser backed down, here.
Lots of slave catchers in Vevay; success, however, is elusive.	A slave catcher, “a gentleman from Carroll county,” gets the run-a-round in Indiana.
Three short notices on Underground Railroad activity in Carroll Co., here.	Edmund Prince & the Underground Railroad, 1855,  here.
Notices like this are common in post-Civil War African-American newspapers.	His “forged” papers detected, enslaved man escapes anyway. Here.
Carroll County's Mary Stewart was not told slaves had been freed. Until 1902.	Freman Anderson, a Hanover, Indiana resident, recalls the days of his activities in the Underground Railroad in Trimble and Carroll. Read his remembrance here.
Mr. Darg loses his enslaved people, here.
“In the Carroll, Ky., Circuit Court, Van Tuyl, who kidnapped the free negroes in Ohio, one of which he sold to a gentleman of Carroll county, had his trial for the swindling transactions.  The prosecution failed to sustain the charges, it being decided that the false pretenses were made in Ohio, although the money paid for negro was received by him in Kentucky.  He was remanded to jail, however, to await a requisition from Ohio, where he will answer for his scoundrelism.” from Vevay's Indiana Reveille, March 31, 1858 More here.
In Carrollton, former slave Alexander Foley found his wife, who had been sold down the river forty years earlier.  The story is here.	In the late 1930's the WPA Writers Project interviewed a number  of people who ha been enslaved.  Peter Neal was from Carroll County, and his account is here. (pdf)
Attempted slave escape, 1862.	Van Tuyl, kidnapper.
“We learn that a free Negro has been preying in about Carrollton, mouth of the Kentucky River, undertook a day or two since to run off a couple of slaves.  He started with them in a skiff, and took his course down stream, when he was overhauled by parties in pursuit, and the slaves recaptured, but the free fellow escaped.” from the Louisville Daily Courier, August 24, 1854	“More Runaways.  The Carrollton Times says: Five more negroes availed themselves of the under-ground railroad facilities for reaching Canada, a few days since.  They were from Shelby county, and crossed the river about Locust.”  from the Louisville Daily Courier, June 5, 1855

Vevay's Weekly Reveille, August 25, 1853

 

from the A.G. and Virginia Craig Family Papers, University of Kentucky Special Collections

 

“At Carrollton, in Carroll County, some fifty miles northeast of Louisville on the Ohio River, considerable furor was aroused over the alleged plots engineered by The Reverend William Anderson, a colored Methodist preacher, who was also accused of aiding fugitive slaves to escape to the North.  After a reward of six hundred dollars had been offered for his apprehension , he was captured with documents in his possession implicating 'several distinguished Northerners.'  His examination, however, proved disappointingly innocuous and he was discharged.“  from Winston Coleman's Slavery Days in Kentucky, 1940
“Negro Troubles in Kentucky - Louisville, Dec. 19- the Negro preacher Anderson was examined to-day, at Carrollton, but nothing was proved against him. He is still held on charges from Henry and Trimble counties.” The National Era, December 25, 1856
More details on Anderson's capture can be found here.	Yet a third story on Anderson is here.