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Morrison v. White was a freedom suit first filed in Louisiana's Third District Court in October 1857 by 15-year-old Jane (or Alexina) Morrison, a runaway slave, against her purchaser, New Orleans slave trader James White. [1] [2] Morrison, who had "a fair complexion, blue eyes, and flaxen hair", [3] claimed to be white. [1] [2]
Fugitive Slave Convention of 1850, Cazenovia, New York; Prigg v. Pennsylvania; Slave Trade Acts; Underground Railroad; James Hamlet, the first man re-enslaved under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, in front of New York City Hall. The banner on the right reads: "A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth an age of servitude".
Brown stayed abroad until 1854. Passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law had increased his risk of capture even in the free states. Only after the Richardson family of Britain purchased his freedom in 1854 (they had done the same for Frederick Douglass), did Brown return to the United States. He quickly rejoined the anti-slavery lecture circuit. [24]
The status of three slaves who traveled from Kentucky to the free states of Indiana and Ohio depended on Kentucky slave law rather than Ohio law, which had abolished slavery. 1852: Lemmon v. New York: Superior Court of the City of New York: Granted freedom to slaves who were brought into New York by their Virginia slave owners, while in transit ...
The Crafts went there after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed because they were in danger of being captured in Boston by bounty hunters. Their children were Charles Estlin Phillips (1852–1938), William Ivens (1855–1926), Brougham H. (1857–1920), Ellen A. Craft (1863–1917) and Alfred G. (1871–1939).
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
The Fugitive Slave Convention was held in Cazenovia, New York, on August 21 and 22, 1850. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was a fugitive slave meeting, the biggest ever held in the United States.
Jón Thoroddsen – Piltur og Stúlka (Boy and Girl, the first novel in Icelandic) [10] Herman Melville – White-Jacket [11] Alexei Pisemsky – The Simpleton («Тюфя′к», Tyufyak) James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest (probable authors) – The String of Pearls (complete in book form; the first literary appearance of Sweeney Todd)