Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
Imprint, “FREE NEGROES—DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,.. January 11, 1827. ...”, Washington, 5pp., disbound rough at spine else VG. In part, “That, under certain provisions of existing laws in the District of Columbia, relating to the apprehension and disposal of runaway slaves, it might possibly occur that a free man of color might be apprehended as a fugitive slave, and eventually sold as such, if found going at large in the District of Columbia, without any evidence of freedom, and unable to procure such evidence. ...” The document continues by defining several legal provisions such as, “If a free man of color should be apprehended as a runaway, he is subjected to the payment of all the fees and rewards given by law for apprehending runaways, and upon failure to make such payment, is liable to he sold as a slave....” The driver behind this committe report is found on the fifth page concerning the arrest of a free man of color the previous summer. In part, “The committee, believing that there solution referred to them originated immediately out of the apprehension and imprisonment, during the last Summer, of a man of color, calling himself Gilbert Horton, in the county of Washington, as a fugitive slave, ....”
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