Two black women, on board a ship, signal distress from cabin window. Some men of color, seeing this, get a writ of habeas corpus, and the women are freed from…
Category: <span>Slaves – escaped</span>
October 14, 1842 An item from the Albany Tocsin “…. Tell the slaveholders that we passed twenty-six prime slaves to the land of freedom last week, and several more this…
October 28, 1842 Latimer, a fugitive slave from Norfolk, Va., was pursued by his owner, James Gray, who had him arrested on a charge of larceny. A writ of habeas…
March 23, 1849 Signed by Abner Ross, Fairfield District, is notice of a “negro girl named Molly”, who has run away …. “She is sixteen or seventeen years of age…
June 28, 1850 Here is an article from the Boston Republican, unsigned, telling the story of a man being taken from the streets of Cincinnati to Kentucky, by men claiming…
August 9, 1850 From the Portsmouth, N.H. Journal, August 3, is the story of a slave named Adam, who was on board a ship from Pensacola. He had hidden himself…
September 6, 1850 A N.Y. Tribune correspondent is the source of this, from Baltimore, unsigned. The article sites instances of escaping slaves, which have “added new fuel to the indignation…
December 6, 1850 From the Georgia Constitutionalist is an account of an unsuccessful attempt to recapture fugitive slaves from Boston. It is written by Willis H. Hughes, from Macon, dated…
January 3, 1851 Under the title A Contrast, from the New York Independent, there is an item about a meeting on the evening of Monday, Dec 23, held by the…
May 2, 1851 From the Providence Mirror, comes a notice that “a number of fugitive slaves left this city on Monday for Canada.” The article cites one instance of “Mr.…
October 3, 1851 Under the title Another Shadrach Case, here is an account from Syracuse, of a man named Henry, who while on a charge of having escaped from slavery,…
October 14, 1853 Here is a letter from Thomas Garrett, of Wilmington, Delaware, who has sent three dollars to the paper. Garrison indicates that Garrett is an old man and…
August 11, 1854 The editor of the Vermont Tribune sends a story of a twenty year old female slave who was running away from her slaver-owner and father, Ruffin Gilchrist,…
November 16, 1855 A letter to Garrison, is signed , “G.W.S.”, and tells the story of a fugitive slave from Richmond, who was sheltered in Milford overnight, then the next…
December 31, 1858 A Story from the Atlas & Bee tells of an escaped slave who was on board a boat in the harbor. Judge Russell of the Police Court…
April 8, 1859 “Three young men want places to wait and tend in public houses. Apply to the Anti-Slavery Office, or by letter to Francis Jackson.”
May 20, 1859 From the Boston Journal, a notice from the Hyannis Messenger indicates that a brig came into port on the 8th, with a fugitive slave aboard. He made…