Jenny Wiley's Escape - a podcast by Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In the area of Bland and Tazewell Counties in Virginia in the late 1780's a pregnant young woman and her child were captured by a band of renegade Indians consisting of two Cherokee, three Shawnee, three Wyandots and three Delaware.  After a year as their slave, this woman managed to escape and make it back through the Appalachian wilderness to her family and friends.

Today we tell the story of Jenny Wiley.

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