RITTNER: Give Charlie a marker

On April 27, 1860, a crowd assembled at the corner of State and First Streets at the Mutual Bank Building, later the National Bank Building. A young 28-year-old man, runaway slave, named Charles Nalle, reported as “light skinned and wore a beard,” and who had escaped from Virginia on October 19th, 1858, had been hoodwinked […]

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