Shadrach Minkins: The Enslaved African Rescued from a Courthouse by Boston Abolitionists in 1851
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In the afternoon of February 15, 1851, inside a federal courthouse, an enslaved African man named Shadrach Minkins, who had escaped slavery in Virginia less than a year earlier, was being held under the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Outside, a crowd of free Black men, abolitionists, and sympathizers gathered, their hearts pounding with […]
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