eight minutes for a ferryman to get you across the river. we knew there was an active african-american community that took an interest when slaves came to visit that often helped them make their way to canada. : >> they didn't want them to grab her, persuade her to come back. so she was immediately across the border then sometime in may probably. >> do we know what the reaction was to her leaving? >> rogers clark who is fanny's son wrote about years later and said she was upset. and that's about the extent of it. it seemed to me, probably her father was more upset than cheney because, you know, and he is 20. they been companions. it's not like a real slaveowning relationship whereas we know her father, several slaves, several escapes, and did everything in his power to get those slaves back. so it probably bothered her father up by two more. i think most likely they didn't understand. they didn't understand why this girl that they're taken in, that they don't have been very humane towards them, had been part of the family would have left the