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APPENDIX B. -
LIST OF IMPORTANT FUGITIVE SLAVE
CASES
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THE following list is not intended to be exhaustive:
it by no means includes all the cases illustrative of
the work of the Underground Road, but it represents
fairly well the various phases of that work, and does
not intentionally omit any of the famous cases.
Less than one half of the list here given will be found
in Mrs. McDougall's Fugitive Slaves,
Appendix D, pp. 124-128.
1. Early escape to Canada.
1748. Negro servant escapes from the English to Canada:
New York Colonial Manuscripts, X, 209.
2. Case of
ship Friendship.
1770. Harbored a
slave: Moore, Slavery in Massachusetts,
117.
3. Somersett case.
1772. England refuses to return a fugitive slave:
Moore, Slavery in Massachusetts, 117;
Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery, 163;
Goodell Slavery and Anti-Slavery, 44-52;
Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, I, 189-193;
Broom, Constitutional Law, 6-119;
Howells, State Trials, XX, 1;
Taswell-Langmead, English Constitutional History,
300, n.
4. Dalby's fugitive.
1786. Aided by Quakers in Philadelphia: Sparks,
Washington, IX, 158; Applegarth,
Quakers of Pennsylvania, 463.
5. Slave
escaped from Drayton.
1786. Difficult to apprehend because, as
Washington declared, there were “numbers who would
rather facilitate the escape of slaves than apprehend
them when runaways.” Lund, Origin of the Late
War, I, 20.
6. First recorded case of rescue. (Quincy's case.)
1793. Alleged fugitive rescued from the
court-room in Boston: Edw. C. Learned, Speech
on the New Fugitive Slave Law, Chicago, Oct.
25,1850; Whittier, Prose Works, II, 129,
“A Chapter of History”; Goodell, Slavery and
Anti-Slavery, 232; Boston Atlas, Oct. 15,
1850; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 35.
7.
Washington fugitive.
1796, October. Public sentiment in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, prevents the return of a fugitive slave
to President Washington: Maga-
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zine of
American History, December,
1877, p. 759; Charles Sumner, Works,
III, 177; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 35.
8. Columbia case.
1804. General Boude defends a runaway:
Smedley Underground Railroad, 26.
9.
Case of Wright m. Deacon.
1819. Trial before Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
to determine status of an alleged runaway: 5 Sergeant
and Rawle’s Reports, 63.
10. Case of Hill vs. Low.
1822. Action brought in Circuit Court of the
United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
for penalty under the law of 1793 for obstructing arrest
of a fugitive: 4 Washington's Circuit
Court Reports, 327.
11. Case
of Commonwealth vs. Griffith.
1823. Prosecution in Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts of a slave-catcher for seizing without a
warrant a runaway i New Bedford: 2 Pickering's
Reports, 15.
12. Escape
of Tice Davids.
1831. Mysterious disappearance of a slave at
Ripley, Ohio, leads to the naming of the Underground
Railroad: Rush R. Sloane, Firelands Pioneer,
July, 1888, p. 35.
13. Dayton (Ohio) case.
1832, January. Rendition of the fugitive,
Thomas Mitchell, at Dayton, Ohio, followed by the
suicide of the negro, at Cincinnati, when on his way
back to slavery: Howe, Historical
Collections of Ohio, II, 554, 555.
14. Case
of Johnson vs. Tompkins.
1833. Prosecution of a claimant for seizure and
removal of his escaped slave from Pennsylvania to New
Jersey; followed by counter prosecution of the
abolitionists before Circuit Court of the United States:
1 Baldwin's Circuit Court Reports, 571;
13 Federal Cases, 840.
15. Case
of Jack vs. Martin
1835. Action under New York law for recovery of a
fugitive from New Orleans: 12 Wendell’s
Reports, 311.
16. Trial and rescue of Dorsey in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania: Smedley,
Underground Railroad, 356-361; E. H. Magill,
"When Men were Sold. The Underground Railroad in
Bucks County," in The Bucks County Intelligencer,
Feb. 3, 1898.
17. Matilda case.
1837. March. Rescue of a slave at Cincinnati,
Ohio, on her way from Virginia to Missouri with her
master. Later she was found in the employ of
James G. Birney, who was tried for harboring the
fugitive,
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while Matilda was remanded to her master:
Schuckers, Live and Public Services of S. P.
Chase 41-44; Warden, Private Life and
Public Services of S. P. Chase, 282-284; 8
Ohio Reports.
18. Schooner
Boston case. (Georgia and Maine controversy.)
1837. Controversy between Georgia and Maine over
a stowaway on the schooner Boston, who escaped through
Maine to Canada: Wilson, Rise and Fall of the
Slave Power, 1, 473; Niles’s Register,
LIII, 71, 72, LV, 356; Senate Journal, 1839-40,
pp. 235-237; Senate Doc., 26 Cong., 1
Sess., Vol. V, Doc. 273; McDougall, Fugitive
Slaves, 41.
19. Case of Peter, alias Lewis
Martin.
1837. Fugitive
adjudged to his claimant by Circuit Court for the
Southern District of New York: 2 Paine’s
Reports, 350; 16 Federal Cases, 881.
20.
Philadelphia case.
1838. Attempted rescue of a captured fugitive by a
crowd of colored people: Liberator, March 16,
1838.
21. Marion (Ohio) case.
1838. Rescue of a fugitive at Marion, Ohio, from the
hands of his claimant, who sought to detain him after
the decision of the court in the slave’s favor: Aaron
Benedict, The Sentinel, Mt. Gilead, Ohio,
July 13, 1893.
22. Escape of Douglass.
1838. Escape of Frederick Douglass
from Baltimore to New York: Life and Times of
Douglass; Williams, Negro Race in
America, II, 59, 422; Wilson, Rise and
Fall of the Slave Power, I, 501, 502.
23. Isaac Gansey case. (Virginia and
New York controversy.)
1839. Controversy between Virginia and New York
over extradition of three negroes demanded by Virginia
for aiding a slave to escape: U. S. Gazette,
“Case of Isaac,” Judge Hopkinson’s
Speech; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave
Power, I, 474; Seward, Works, II,
449-518; Von Holst, Constitutional
History, II, 538-540: Senate Documents, 27
Cong., 2 Sess., Vol. II, Doc. 96; McDougall,
Fugitive Slaves, 41.
24. Granville (Ohio) rescue case.
1841. Discharge of fugitive, John, after a
hearing obtained through a writ of habeas corpus;
followed by the departure of the negro over an
underground route: Bushnell, History of
Granville, Licking County, Ohio, 307, 308.
25. Burr, Work and Thompson
case.
1841. Prosecution for aiding fugitive slaves in
western Illinois: Wilson, Rise and Fall of the
Slave Power, II 71; Goodell, Slavery and
Anti- Slavery, 440; Thompson, Prison Life
and Reflections; Asbury, History of
Quincy, Illinois, 74.
26. Van Zandt case. (Jones vs. Van
Zandt.)
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1842-1847. Prosecution for aiding runaways in
southwestern Ohio: 5 Howard's Reports,
215; Letter of N. L. Van Sandt, Clarinda, Iowa;
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power,
I, 475, 476; Cobb, Historical Sketches of
Slavery, 207; 2 McLean's Reports, 612;
Schuckers, Live and Public Services of S.
P. Chase, 53-66; Warden, Private Life
and Public Services of S. P. Chase. 296.
27.
Prigg case. (Prigg vs. the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.)
1842. Prosecution for causing arrest and removal
of a runaway contrary to provisions of a state law.
Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States frees
state officers from taking part in fugitive slave cases:
16 Peters’ Reports, 589; Report of Case
of Edward Prigg, Supreme Court,
Pennsylvania; Cobb, Historical Sketch of
Slavery; Bledsoe, Liberty and Slavery,
355; Clarke, Anti-Slavery Days, 69;
Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, II,
456-492; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave
Power, I, 472, 473; Von Holst,
Constitutional History, III, 310-312.
28. Latimer case.
1842. Famous fugitive slave case in Boston.
Fugitive released by purchase: Liberator, Oct.
25, Nov. 11, Nov. 25, 1842, Feb. 3, 7, 17, 1843, and
Aug. 16, 1844; Law Reporter, Latimer Case, March,
1843; Eleventh Annual Report of Mass.
Anti-Slavery Society; Mass. House Journal,
1843, pp. 72, 158; Mass. Senate Journal, 1843, p.
232; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, I,
477; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 39, 40.
29. Milton Clark rescue case.
1842. September. Release of the fugitive,
captured in Lake County, Ohio, by writ of habeas corpus
in Ashtabula County, Ohio, followed by his disappearance
by way of the Underground Railroad: Geneva (Ohio)
Times, Sept. 14, 1892.
30. Eells case.
1842-1852. Prosecution for harboring a slave in
Adams County, Illinois: 5 Illinois Reports, 498;
14 Howard’s Reports, 13.
31. Case of Charles T. Torrey.
1843. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves
from Virginia: Wilson, Rise and Fall of the
Slave Power, II, 80.
32. Case
of Delia A. Webster.
1844. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves
from Kentucky: Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery
Times; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 29, 1893.
33. Case
of Calvin Fairbank.
1844. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves
from Kentucky: Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery
Times; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 29, 1893.
34.
Marysville (Ohio) rendition case.
1844, September 10. Rendition of two fugitives captured
on the Scioto River, near Marysville, Union County,
Ohio: Marysville Tribune, May 17, 1893; Letter of
Mahlon Pickrell, Zanesfield, Ohio,
Mar. 25, 1893.
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1844. Prosecution for attempt to abduct slaves
from Florida: Trial and Imprisonment of
Jonathan Walker, Liberator, Aug. 16, 31,
Sept. 6, 13, Oct. 18, 25 and Dec. 27, 1844, Aug. 8, 15,
and July 18, 1845; Wilson, Rise and Fall of
the Slave Power, 83; McDougall, Fugitive
Slaves, 42.
36. Case of State vs. Hoppess. (Watson
case.)
1845. Action before the Supreme Court of Ohio on
the circuit to secure the liberation of a recaptured
slave: 2 Western Law Journal, 279; Schuckers,
Life and Public Services of S. P. Chase,
74-77; Warden, Private Life and Public
Services of S. P. Chase, 309.
37. Case of Vaughan vs. Williams.
1845. Prosecution before the Circuit Court of the
United States for the District of Indiana for rescuing
fugitive slaves: 3 Western Law Journal, 65; 8
Law Reporter, 375; 28 Federal Cases, 1115; 3
McLean’s Reports, 530.
38.
Parish case. (Jane Garrison case.)
1845-1849. Prosecution of F. D. Parish for
aiding fugitives at Sandusky, Ohio: Firelands Pioneer,
July, 1888; Warden, Private Life and Public
Services of S. P. Chase, 310; A. E. Lee,
History of Columbus, Ohio, I, 598.
39. Toledo (Ohio) rescue case.
1847, February. Rescue of a fugitive from custody
while his captor was being tried on a charge of assault
and battery before a justice of the peace:
Conversation with James M. Ashley, Toledo, Ohio,
July, 1895, and with Mavor Brigham,
Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 4, 1895.
40. Crosswhite rescue case. (Case of
Giltner vs. Gorham.)
1847. Prosecution for obstructing arrest of
fugitives at Marshall, Michigan: Pamphlet proposing a
“Defensive League of Freedom,” by E. G. Loring,
and others, pp. 5, 6; 4 McLean’s Reports,
402.
41. Kauffman case.
1848. Prosecution of Daniel Kauffman,
of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, for aiding
fugitives: E. G. Loring and others, Pamphlet
proposing a “Defensive League of Freedom,” pp. 5, 6.
42. Garrett case.
1848. Prosecution of Thomas Garrett,
of Wilmington, Delaware, for aiding fugitive slaves:
Still, Underground Railroad Records, 623-641;
Smedley, Underground Railroad, 237 - 245;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 60; Wyman,
New England Magazine, March, 1896.
43. Case of Drayton and Sayres.
(Case of the schooner Pearl.)
1848, April 18. Prosecution for attempting
abduction of slaves from Washington, D.C.: Personal
Memoir of Daniel Drayton; Wilson,
Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 104;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 42.
44. Ohio and Kentucky controversy.
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1848. Controversy on account of extradition of
fifteen persons, charged with aiding fugitives, demanded
by Kentucky: Liberator, July 14, 1848.
45. Craft
escape.
1848. Escape of William and Ellen Craft:
Liberator, Nov. 1, 1850; Still,
Underground Railroad, 368; Clarke,
Anti-Slavery Days, 83; Wilson, Rise and
Fall of the Slave Power, II, 325; New England
Magazine, January, 1890; McDougall,
Fugitive Slaves, 59.
46. Case of Richard Dillingham.
1848, December. Prosecution for attempting
to abduct slaves from Nashville, Tennessee: Benedict,
Memoir of Richard Dillingham; Stowe,
Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 58, 59; Reminiscences
of Levi Coffin, 713- 718; Howe, Historical
Collections of Ohio, II, 590.
47. Clarksburgh (Indiana) case. (Case of Ray
vs. Donnell and Hamilton.)
1849, May. Prosecution for aiding fugitive slave:
4 McLean’s Reports, 504.
48. Case of Norris vs. Newton
and others.
1849, September. Fugitives captured in Cass
County, Michigan, discharged on trial at South Bend,
Indiana, prosecution of those who interfered following:
5 McLean’s Reports, 92.
49. First case under the Fugitive Slave Law of
1850. (Hamlet “kidnapping” case.)
1850, September 26. Rendition of James
Hamlet, a free negro, living in New York City:
Fugitive Slave Bill, its History and
Unconstitutionality, with an Account of the Seizure of
James Hamlet, 3; Wilson,
Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II 304;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 43, 44.
50. Chaplin case.
1850. Prosecution of William L. Chaplin
for attempting to abduct slaves of Robert Toombs
and Alexander H. Stephens from Washington, D.C.:
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power,
II, 80-82; Case of William R. Chaplin, etc.
(Boston, 1851), p. 54.
51. Sims case.
1851. Rendition in Boston: Liberator,
April 17 and 18; Daily Morning Chronicle, April
26, 1851; Twentieth Annual Report of Mass. Anti-
Slavery Society, 1855, p. 19 ; Trial of Sims,
Arguments by R. Rantoul, Jr., and C. G. Loring;
C. F. Adams, Life of Richard Henry Dana,
I, 185- 301; 7 Cushing’s Reports, 287;
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II,
333; New England Magazine, June, 1890;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 44.
52. Shadrach case.
1851, February. Rescue in Boston: Liberator,
Feb. 21, May 30, 1851; Boston Traveller, Feb. 15,
1851; Boston Courier, Feb. 17, 1851;
Washington National Era, Feb. 27,1851; Cong.
Globe, 31 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix,
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238,295, 510; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its
Victims, 10; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the
Slave Power, II, 329; Von Holst, III, 21;
Statesman’s Manual, III, 1919; New England
Magazine, May, 1890; McDougall, Fugitive
Slaves, 47, 48; Rhodes, History of the
United States, I, 209, 210, 290.
53. Christiana case.
1851, September. Riot in Christiana,
Pennsylvania, caused by attempt to arrest and remove
fugitives, followed by trial on the charge of treason of
the persons alleged to have prevented the arrest: 2
Wallace Jr.’s Reports, 159; 9 Legal
Intelligencer, 22; 4 American Law Journal, n.
s., 458; 9 Western Law Journal, 103; 26
Federal Cases, 105; Still, Underground Railroad,
348-368; “Parker’s account,” “ The Freedman’s
Story,” T. W. Higginson, Atlantic Monthly,
Feb. and March, 1866; U. S. vs. Hanway,
Treason, 247; May, Fugitive Slave Law
and its Victims, 14; History of the Trial of
Castner Hanway and others for Treason;
N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 12, 1851, and Nov. 26 to Dec.
12; Boston Daily Traveller, Sept. 12, 1851;
National Anti-Slavery Standard, Sept. 18, 1851;
Lowell Journal, Sept. 19, 1851; Smedley,
Underground Railroad, 107-130; Wilson, Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 328, 329;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 50, 51; Rhodes,
History of the United States, I, 222-224.
54. Jerry rescue.
1851, October. Rescue of Jerry McHenry
in Syracuse, New York: Liberator, Oct. 10-17,
1851; S. J. May, Recollections of the
Anti-Slavery Conflict, 349-364; Life of Gerrit
Smith, 117; Trial of H. W. Allen,
3; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power,
II, 305, 306; E. W. Seward, Seward at
Washington as Senator and Secretary of State, I,
169, 170; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 44,
47-51.
55. Parker rescue.
1851, December 31. Rescue by Mr. Miller:
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power,
II, 324; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its
Victims, 15; Liberator, 1853, Feb. 4;
Lunsford Lane, 113.
56. Brig Florence rescue.
1853. Rescue of a slave on board by Capt. Austin
Bearse: Bearse, Reminiscences of Fugitive
Slave-Law Days in Boston, 34.
57. Case of Oliver vs. Weakley and others.
1853. Prosecution before the United States Circuit
Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in
October term for harboring fugitives: 2 Wallace Jr.’s
Reports, 324.
58. Louis case.
1853, October. Escape of the fugitive, Louis,
from the court-room while on trial in Cincinnati:
Liberator, Oct. 28, 1853; Reminiscences of Levi
Coffin, 548-554.
59. Bellefontaine (Ohio) rescue case.
1852, November. Discharge of the Piatt slaves
from custody by the
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probate judge of Logan County, followed by their escape
over the Underground Railroad: Logan County Gazette,
November, 1852; Letter of the Hon. Robert T. Kennedy,
Bellefontaine, Jan. 22, 1893; Conversation with Judge
Wm. H. West, Bellefontaine, Aug. 11, 1894; Letter of
R. H. Johnston, Belle Centre, Ohio, Sept. 22,
1894.
60. Case of
Miller vs. McQuerry.
1853, August. Rendition of a fugitive, for
several years a resident near Troy, Ohio, by the Circuit
Court of the United States at Cincinnati, Ohio: 5
McLean’s Reports, 481; 10 Western Law
Journal, 528; 17 Federal Cases, 335; May,
The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 28;
History of Darke County, Ohio, 324, 325.
61. Mitchell’s
case.
1853. Prosecution of Mitchell, an
abolitionist of Indiana, Pennsylvania, for harboring
slaves: 2 Wallace Jr.’s Reports, 313;
Pittsburgh Dispatch, Feb. 13, 1898.
62.
Glover rescue case. (Case of Ableman vs.
Booth.)
1854, March 10. Rescue of Joshua Glover
by a mob at Milwaukee; followed by the prosecution of
Sherman M. Booth, one of the rescuers, and a
conflict between the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and the
Supreme Court of the United States: Liberator,
April 7, 24, 1854; Wilson, Rise and Fall of
the Slave Power, II, 444; Mason, The
Fugitive Slave Law in Wisconsin with Reference to
Nullification Sentiment, 1895; C. C. Olin,
A Complete Record of the John Olin Family,
1893; Byron Paine and A. D. Smith,
Unconstitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Argument of A. D. Smith, Milwaukee, 1854.
Wisconsin Supreme Court, Unconstitutionality of the
Fugitive Slave Act, Decision in case of Booth and
Rycraft.
63. Burns
case.
1854, May 24. Rendition of Anthony
Burns in Boston: Liberator, May, June, 1854,
Aug. 22, 1861; Kidnapping of Burns, Scrapbook
collected by Theodore Parker; Personal
Statement of Mr. Elbridge Sprague, N.
Abington; Accounts in Boston Journal, May 27,
29, 1854; Daily Advertiser, May 26, 29, June 7,
8, July 17; Traveller, May 27, 29, June 2, 3, 6,
10, July 15, 18, Oct. 3, Nov. 29, Dec. 5, 7, 1854, April
3, 4, 10, 11, 1855; Evening Gazette, May 27,
1854; Worcester Spy, May 31; Argument of
Mr. R. H. Dana; May, Fugitive Slave Law and
its Victims, 256; Stevens, History of
Anthony Burns; New York Tribune,
May 26, 1854; Clarke, Anti-Slavery Days,
87; Greeley, American Conflict, I, 218;
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II,
435; Von Holst, VI, 62; Garrisons’
Garrison, II, 201, III, 409; C. F. Adams,
Dana, I, 262-330; Rhodes, History of the
United States, I, 500-506; T. W. Higginson,
Atlantic Monthly, March, 1897, 349-354;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 45; Lillie B.
C. Wyman, New England Magazine, July, 1890.
64. Sloaue
case.
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1854.
Prosecution of Rush R. Sloane before the District
Court of the United States at Columbus, Ohio, for
dismissing fugitives from the custody of their captors
at Sandusky, Ohio: 5 McLean’s United States
Reports, 64; Rush R. Sloane and H. F.
Paden, Firelands Pioneer, 47-49, 21- 22.
65. Rosetta case.
1855, March. Release of the slave girl,
Rosetta, by writ of habeas corpus from the
possession of her master, who brought her voluntarily to
Columbus, Ohio; followed some time later by the seizure
and removal of the girl, and the pursuit of her captors
to Cincinnati, where they were compelled by legal
process to give her up: Warden, Private Life
and Public Services of S. P. Chase, 344, 345;
A. E. Lee, History of Columbus, Ohio, I,
602, 603.
66. Erican case.
1855, May 28. Unsuccessful attempt at Columbus,
Ohio, to persuade two slave girls to leave their master,
P. Erican, a Frenchman from New Orleans, en
route with his family to Europe: Lee,
History of Columbus, Ohio, 603.
67. Margaret Garner case.
1856, January. Rendition of Margaret
Garner at Cincinnati, Ohio, after she had killed one
of her children to prevent its return to bondage:
Liberator, Feb. 8, 22, 29,1856; May,
Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims, 37; Lunsford
Lane, 119; Greeley, American Conflict,
I, 219; Lalor’s Cyclopaedia, I, 207;
Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II,
446, 447; James Monroe, Oberlin
Thursday Lectures, Addresses and Essays, 116;
Schuckers, Life and Public Services of S. P.
Chase, 171-176; Warden, Private Life
and Public Services of S. P. Chase, 346-350.
68. Williamson case.
1856, January. Prosecution for aiding fugitives:
Narrative of the Facts in the Case of Passmore
Williamson, Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society;
Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, New
York, May 7, 1856, p. 24; May, Fugitive Slave
Law and its Victims, 9, 34; Wilson, Rise
and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 448.
69. Johnson rescue case.
1856, July 16. Rescue of slave on ship from
Mobile: Liberator, July 18, 1856.
70. Gatchell case. 1857, January. Rendition
of Philip Young: Chambers, Slavery and
Color; Fugitive Slave Law, Appendix, 197.
71. Addison White case.
1857, May 15. Prosecution of Udney Hyde
and others for aiding the fugitive, Addison
White, at Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio:
Beer, History of Clark County, Ohio; Howe,
Historical Collections of
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Ohio, I, 384-386; Schuckers, Life and
Public Services of S. P. Chase, 177-182;
Warden, Private Life and Public Services of S.
P. Chase, 350, 351.
72. Oberlin-Wellington rescue case.
1858, September 13. Rescue of the boy, John,
at Wellington, Ohio, followed by the prosecution of two
rescuers, and the indictment of four of the
slave-catchers: Shipherd, History of the
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue; Liberator, Jan.
28, April 29, May 6, June 3, 10, 1859; Cleveland (Ohio)
Plain Dealer, July 6, 1859; Lunsford Lane,
179; Anglo-African Magazine (Oberlin-Wellington
Rescue), 209; May, Fugitive Slave Law and its
Victims, 108; New Englander, XVII, 686.
73. Nuckolls case.
1858, December. Prosecution of Nuckolls of
Nebraska City, Nebraska, for injuring a person who
remonstrated against his search for fugitives: Rev.
John Todd, Tabor (Iowa) Beacon, 1890-91,
Chapter XXI, of a series of articles entitled “The
Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa.”
74. John
Brown’s raid. 1858, December 20. Abduction of
twelve slaves from Missouri, who were conducted directly
through to Canada: Sanborn, Life and Letters
of John Brown, 480-483; Redpath,
Public Life of Capt. John Brown, 219- 221;
Hinton, John Brown and His Men,
30-32, 221, 222; Von Holst, John Brown,
104; I. B. Richman, John Brown among
the Quakers, and Other Sketches, 46-48; Life of
Frederick Douglass, 1881, 280, 281, 318, 3l9;
McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 51, 52.
75.
Charles Nalle case. (Troy, New York, rescue
case.)
1859, April 28. Troy Whig, April 28, 1859;
Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her
People, 143-149; History of the County of Albany,
N. Y., from 1609-1886, p. 765; Liberator, May
4, 1860.
76. Jim Gray case.
1859, October 20. Dismissal of fugitive from
arrest by decision of State Supreme Court at Ottawa,
Illinois, followed by the rescue of the slave from the
custody of the United States marshal, and the
prosecution of several of the rescuers: Ottawa
(Ill.) Republican, Nov. 9, 1891; Pontiac
(Ill.) Sentinel, 1891-92; Speech of John
Hossack, convicted of violation of the Fugitive
Slave Law, before Judge Drummond of the
United States District Court, Chicago, Ill. (New York,
1860.)
77. Sheldon and Woodford case.
1860, March. Prosecution of Edward Sheldon
and Newton Woodford, of Tabor, Iowa, for aiding
fugitives: Rev. John Todd, Tabor (Iowa)
Beacon, 1890-91, Chapter XXI, of series of articles
on “The Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa.”
78. Anderson case.
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1860.
Extradition case between United States and Canada:
Pamphlets on Anderson Case, Boston Public Library;
Life of Gerrit Smith, 15; Liberator,
Dec. 3, 1860, Jan. 22,1861; British Documents,
Parliament of Great Britain, “Correspondence Respecting
Case of Fugitive Slave, Anderson,” London,
79. Cleveland (Ohio) rendition case.
1861. Rendition of the fugitive slave, Lucy,
in Cleveland, Ohio, to her master, Wm. S. Goshorn,
of Wheeling, West Virginia: Cleveland Herald,
date unknown.
80. Iberia (Ohio) whipping case.
1861, November. Prosecution of the Rev. George
Gordon, Principal of Iberia College, for “resisting
process” in the hands of a United States deputy marshal,
who was endeavoring to capture a fugitive slave on the
night of Sept. 20, 1860. The deputy and his
assistants were caught, disarmed, taken to the woods and
whipped. Principal Gordon witnessed
without protest the last ten or fifteen lashes, and for
so doing was sentenced to six months’ confinement in the
county jail, to pay a fine of $300, and the costs of
prosecution - $1000 or $1500 more: Rev. George
Gordon in the Principia, Nov. 29, 1861.
81. John Dean case.
1862, June. Prosecution of John Dean,
a prominent lawyer of Washington, D.C., for protecting
his client, an alleged fugitive just released, from a
second arrest: Noah Brooks, Washington
in Lincoln’s Time, 197, 198.
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