The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims: Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 — John Shaqi
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)
ill-fame is not a suitable place, nor one of its inmates a
proper person for the education of such a child." Jane
Trainer's mother was afterwards bought from slavery in
Mobile, Alabama, and enabled to join her husband and child.
In 1854, Charles Trainer obtained a verdict in King's County
Court, New York, for $775 damages, against Rose Cooper.
[N.B. Though not strictly a case under the Fugitive Slave Law, this
is very properly inserted here, as the whole spirit of the woman, of
her counsel, and of the means he took to accomplish his base
designs, was clearly instigated by that Law, and by the malignant
influences it brought into action against the colored people, both
slave and free.]
BASIL WHITE, Philadelphia, was summarily surrendered into
slavery in Maryland, by United States Commissioner Ingraham,
June 1, 1853. He was betrayed into the clutches of the
kidnapper Alberti, by a colored man named John Dorsey.
_Two slaves_ of Sylvester Singleton, living near Burlington,
(Ky.?) escaped and reached Columbus, Ohio; were there
overtaken by their master, who secured them and took them
back with him.--_Cincinnati Enquirer_.
JOHN FREEMAN, a free colored man, seized in Indianapolis, and
claimed as the slave of Pleasant Ellington, a Methodist
church-member, (Summer, 1853,) of Missouri. Freeman pledged
himself to prove that he was not the person he was alleged to
be. The United States Marshal consented to his having time
for this, provided he would go to jail, and pay _three
dollars a day_ for a guard to keep him secure! Bonds to any
amount, to secure the marshal against loss, if Freeman could
go at large, were rejected. Freeman's counsel went to
Georgia, and "after many days returned with a venerable and
highly respectable gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Patillo,
(post-master of the place where he resides,) who had
voluntarily made the long journey for the sole purpose of
testifying to his knowledge of Freeman, and that he was well
known to be free!" But Freeman was still kept in jail. After
several days, Ellington brought witnessess to prove F. to be
his slave. The witnesses, and Liston (counsel for Ellington)
wished to have Freeman strip himself, to be examined naked.
By advise of his counsel he refused. The marshal took him to
his cell, and compelled him to strip. The witnesses then
swore that he was Ellington's property. Freeman's counsel
produced further evidence that he had been known as a free
man _twenty_ years. Ellington claimed that he had escaped
from him _sixteen_ years before. The man who did escape from
Ellington, just sixteen years before, was discovered to be
living near Malden, Canada. Two of the Kentucky witnesses
visited and recognized him. Freeman was then released, but
with a large debt upon him, $1,200, which had grown up by
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