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Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves, 1863, Brooklyn Museum. In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery. The term also refers to the federal Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850.
Slave revolt: Caesar, Sam, and Sanford Black Unknown 19 October 1860 Alabama State Treason: William Bruce Mumford [Note 2] White 42 7 June 1862 Union-occupied New Orleans: Military Aiding a runaway slave: Starling Carlton White Unknown 1859 South Carolina State Theft: Jake (slave) Black Unknown 3 December 1855 Alabama State Horse theft (Grand ...
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, [1] as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power ...
A slave owner named B. T. E. Mabry of Beatie's Bluff, Madison County, Mississippi placed a runaway slave ad in 1848 that described the missing man as "has been severely whipped, which has left large raised scars or whelks in the small of his back and on his abdomen nearly as large as a persons finger". [3]
According to Michael W. Byrd, a dual system of medical care provided poorer care for slaves throughout the South, and slaves were excluded from proper, formal medical training. [32] This meant that slaves were mainly responsible for their own care, a "health subsystem" that persisted long after slavery was abolished. [33]
"The Christiana Tragedy", an 1872 depiction of the shooting of Edward Gorsuch. [1]The Christiana Riot, also known as Christiana Resistance, Christiana Tragedy, or Christiana incident, was the successful armed resistance by free Blacks and escaped slaves to a raid led by a federal marshal to recover four escaped slaves owned by Edward Gorsuch of Maryland.
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1845 daguerreotype of Walker's branded hand by photographers Southworth & Hawes.. Jonathan Walker (1799 – May 1, 1878), known as "The Man with the Branded Hand", was an American fishing ship captain and abolitionist who became a national hero in 1844 when he was tried and sentenced as a slave stealer following his attempt to help seven runaway slaves find freedom.