The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims - Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 by American Anti-Slavery Society
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_The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate_, of January 1, 1851, said that Messrs. Markwood & Chester had brought back "_seven of their Slaves_" from Michigan. _The Memphis (Tenn.) Eagle_, of a later date, says that within a few weeks "at least five fugitive slaves have been brought back to this city, from free States, with as little trouble as would be had in recovering stray cows." The same paper adds, "We occasionally receive letters notifying us that a slave, said to be the property of some one in this vicinity, has been lodged in jail in Illinois or Indiana, for his owner, who will please call, pay charges, and take him away." _In Boston, end of January, 1851._ A colored man, lately from North Carolina, was sought by officers, under Marshal Devens, aided by a lawyer, named Spencer, provided by the New York Union Safety Committee. The arrest was not attempted. It was found that the colored man was too strongly guarded and protected. Mrs. TAMOR, or EUPHEMIA WILLIAMS, _Philadelphia, February, 1851_, mother of six children, arrested and brought before Commissioner Ingraham, as the slave Mahala, belonging to William T.J. Purnell, of Worcester County, Maryland, admitted to have been absent since 1829--twenty-two years. Children all born in Pennsylvania; oldest about seventeen--a girl. Her husband also in custody, and alleged to be the slave of another man. Under writ of _habeas corpus_, Mrs. Williams was |
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