Illustration for page 19, The American
Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, Vol. I, No. 4).
Courtesy The John Hay Library, Brown University.
Caption:
Nov. 20, 1836, (Sunday,) Peter John Lee, a free colored man of
Westchester Co., N. Y., was kidnapped by Tobias Boudinot, E. K. Waddy,
John Lyon, and Daniel D. Nash, of N. Y., city, and hurried away from
his wife and children into slavery. One went up to shake hands with
him, while the others were ready to use the gag and chain. See
Emancipator, March 16, and May 4, 1837. This is not a rare case.
Many northern freemen have been enslaved, in some cases under color
of law. Oct. 26, 1836, a man named Frank, who was born in Pa., and
lived free in Ohio, was hurried into slavery by an Ohio Justice of
the Peace. When offered for sale in Louisiana, he so clearly stated
the facts that a slaveholdingcourt declared
him FREE- thus giving a withering rebuke to
northern servility.
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