October 11, 1861 The story comes from the New York Tribune; it tells of a fugitive, who swam across the river and came to Camp Holt, by the Falls of…
Category: <span>Runaway slaves</span>
January 19, 1855 From the Boston Evening Transcript, the story of Jackson, an alleged fugitive, who had been in the city for eight weeks. A Capt Fox, pursues Jackson. Jackson…
January 18, 1850 Notice of Mr. Mason’s bill, providing ‘for the more effective execution of the third clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of…
August 29, 1845 Under Refuge of Oppression, there is an item from the Barnstable (Democratic!) Patriot The item is vitriolic in criticism of Jonathan Walker, and Mr. Loring Moody, of…
August 22, 1845 From the Granite Freeman; Tells of Washington’s slave, Ona Marie Judge, living in Greenland, N.H. and supported by the town of Rockingham. The writer is not sure…
September 1, 1843 About twenty slaves, in Maryland, intended to go to Canada. They met in Baltimore County, got as far as Havre de Grace, where two of their number…
April 7, 1843 Here is a notice addressed to the friends of Liberty who want to help those in flight from the southern institution …”Those who can afford shelter or…
Under a title, Life in New Orleans, there is a listing of six advertisements which offer rewards varying from $5 to $100, from slaveholders, for the return of slaves who…
From the Boston Post comes the story that the bark, Kazan, arrived from Mobile, with a slave who had stowed away on board without the knowledge of the crew. The…
House of Representatives acts to empower the Governor to take steps to insure that citizens of the state who are charged in slave states as being runaway slaves, be given…
Notice that a Baltimore paper contains notice that a colored man named John Thomas, who says he is free, and who was born and brought up in Boston, has been…