biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1834–62)
|
| biography:
| Fugitive slave, born in Stafford Co, Virginia, USA. He converted to the Baptist faith and became a ‘slave preacher’. He escaped from Richmond on a ship and reached Boston (1854), but was soon arrested and identified under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law (1850). Bostonians fought to keep him free, and it cost $100 000 and hundreds of soldiers to put down the demonstrations before he was returned to his master in Virginia. Northerners raised $1200 to purchase his freedom, and he went on to study at Oberlin College (1857–62) and became a Baptist preacher. |
|
|
