The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims: Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18May, Samuel
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The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims: Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18
May, Samuel
Fugitive slaves -- United States; United States -- Fugitive slave law (1850)
_Vincennes, Indiana, April, 1851._ Four fugitive slaves were
seized, claimed by one Mr. Kirwan, of or near Florence,
Alabama. The magistrate, named Robinson, gave up the
fugitives, and they were taken into slavery.
_In Salisbury Township, Penn., April, 1851_, an elderly man
was kidnapped and carried into Maryland.
_Near Sandy Hill, Chester County, Penn., in March, 1851_, a
very worthy and estimable colored man, named Thomas Hall, was
forcibly seized, his house being broken into by three armed
ruffians, who beat him and his wife with clubs. He was
kidnapped.
MOSES JOHNSON, _Chicago, Illinois_, brought before a United
States Commissioner, discharged as not answering to the
description of the man claimed.
CHARLES WEDLEY, kidnapped from _Pittsburg, Pennsylvania_, and
taken into Maryland. He was found, and brought back.
_Cincinnati, Ohio, June 3, 1851_, an attempt to arrest a
fugitive was made. But a scuffle ensued, in which the man
escaped.
_Cincinnati, Ohio._ About the same time, some slaves, (number
not stated,) belonging to Rev. Mr. Perry and others, of
Covington, Kentucky, were taken in Cincinnati, and carried
back to Kentucky.
_Philadelphia, end of June, 1851_, a colored man was taken
away as a slave, by steamboat. A writ of _Habeas Corpus_ was
got out but the officer could not find the man. This is
probably the same case with that of JESSE WHITMAN, arrested
at Wilkesbarre.
FRANK JACKSON, a free colored man in _Mercer, Penn._, was
taken, early in 1851, by a man named Charles May, into
Virginia, and sold as a slave. He tried to escape, but was
taken and lodged in Fincastle jail, Virginia.
THOMAS SCOTT JOHNSON, free colored man, of _New Bedford_, was
arrested near Portsmouth, Virginia, and was about to be sold
as a slave; but, by the strenuous interposition of Capt.
Card, certificates were obtained from New Bedford, and he was
set at liberty.
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, _West Chester County, Penn._, delivered
into slavery by Commissioner Jones. (July, 1851.)
DANIEL HAWKINS, of _Lancaster County, Penn._, (July, 1851,)
was brought before Commissioner Ingraham, Philadelphia, and
by him delivered to his claimant, and he was taken into
slavery.
_New Athens, Ohio, July 8, 1851._ Eighteen slaves, who had
escaped from Lewis County, Kentucky, were discovered in
an old building in Adams County, Ohio. Some white men,
professing to be friendly, misled them, and brought them to a
house, where they were imprisoned, bound one by one, and
carried back to Kentucky. [The enactment of the Fugitive
Slave Law is the direct stimulating cause of all these cases
of kidnapping.]
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