{"id":738,"date":"2006-11-15T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/738"},"modified":"2006-11-15T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T01:54:51","slug":"unsuccessful-effort-to-capture-the-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/unsuccessful-effort-to-capture-the-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsuccessful effort to capture the Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>December 6, 1850<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the Georgia Constitutionalist is an account of an unsuccessful attempt to recapture fugitive slaves from Boston.\u00a0 It is written by Willis H. Hughes, from Macon, dated Nov. 21, 1850, and is addressed to &#8220;fellow citizens&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 The fugitive is named as &#8220;Bill&#8221;, but it becomes clear it is William Craft.\u00a0 Hughes recounts the ways in various officials in Boston avoided assisting him by delays, postponements, jurisdictional disputes, and even at one time when he was arrested for slandering Ellen Crafts, and held to bail for $20,000.\u00a0 He indicates that he has leaned that the Crafts had &#8220;positively left for England&#8221;.\u00a0 Hughes concludes that he &#8220;went to Boston as an agent to execute a lawful trust, thinking I should be protected and assisted by the laws of my country.\u00a0 But, on the contrary, from the first, the laws of the country, instead of a protection, were made an engine of cruelty, oppression, injustice, and abuse; so that my life was constantly endangered, and this, without the first offer of assistance from Government, national, State, or city. 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