User:HoosierWithTheHorseGirls/The free south

History
William Shreve Bailey was from Centerville, Ohio and moved down to Newport, KY to find work. He found work as a cotton machinist and engine builder and in his spare time would write articles for Newport News and other newspapers. The owner asked Bailey if he would buy him out because his contributions made the news paper a target by the pro-slavery mobs of Kentucky. These groups destroyed Baileys home, stranding his 14 kids, his wife and himself homeless in 1951 then destroyed his Printing Press machines in 1859. The whole family worked side by side to spread the word of The Free South for many years. Many speculated Bailey worked on the Underground Railroad due to the different places his kids were born all before starting The Free South. During the civil war Bailey traveled to different countries to rally support to free enslaved peoples, not much is known. After his wife passed in 1867 Bailey moved on to Nashville, Tennessee to continue his publishing business and died at the age of 80.