The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims - Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 by American Anti-Slavery Society
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forcibly seized, his house being broken into by three armed
ruffians, who beat him and his wife with clubs. He was kidnapped. MOSES JOHNSON, _Chicago, Illinois_, brought before a United States Commissioner, discharged as not answering to the description of the man claimed. CHARLES WEDLEY, kidnapped from _Pittsburg, Pennsylvania_, and taken into Maryland. He was found, and brought back. _Cincinnati, Ohio, June 3, 1851_, an attempt to arrest a fugitive was made. But a scuffle ensued, in which the man escaped. _Cincinnati, Ohio._ About the same time, some slaves, (number not stated,) belonging to Rev. Mr. Perry and others, of Covington, Kentucky, were taken in Cincinnati, and carried back to Kentucky. _Philadelphia, end of June, 1851_, a colored man was taken away as a slave, by steamboat. A writ of _Habeas Corpus_ was got out but the officer could not find the man. This is probably the same case with that of JESSE WHITMAN, arrested at Wilkesbarre. FRANK JACKSON, a free colored man in _Mercer, Penn._, was taken, early in 1851, by a man named Charles May, into Virginia, and sold as a slave. He tried to escape, but was taken and lodged in Fincastle jail, Virginia. |
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