 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 160 pages
...Feb. 9, 1835, ordered to be printed, the following statement is introduced : A colored man, who states that he was entitled to freedom, was taken up as a...was advertised, but no one appearing to claim him, be was, according to law, put up at public auction for the payment of his jail fees, and SOLD as a... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Abolitionists - 1881 - 338 pages
...Even the laws which govern us, sanction and direct in certain cases, a procedure that we believe is unparalleled in glaring injustice by any thing at...relate. A colored man who stated that he was entitled to his freedom was taken up as a runaway and lodged in the jail at Washington City. He was advertised,... | |
 | Samuel Macpherson Janney - 1890 - 338 pages
...Even the laws which govern us, sanction and direct in certain cases, a procedure that we believe is unparalleled in glaring injustice by any thing at...relate. A colored man who stated that he was entitled to his freedom was taken up as a runaway and lodged in the jail at Washington City. He was advertised,... | |
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Even the laws which govern us sanction and direct, in certain cases, a procedure that we believe as unparalleled, in glaring injustice, by any thing at present known among the Governments of Christendom. An instance of the operation of these laws, which... 