Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
Newspaper, a complete and authentic issue of the National Anti Slavery Standard, New York, September 3, 1859, 4pp., VG. From the front page, a fully printed letter “From A Fugitive Slave To His Master.” In small part, “Fugitive’s Home, Sandwich, C.W., March 18, 1859 ...I am happy to inform you that I am in Canada, in good health, and that robbing a woman of her husband, and children of their father does not pay, at least in your case ...as you promised you would, which was to let me go with my family for $800 ... let me go with my dear wife and children! but instead would render me miserable, and lie to me ... you was at Louisville trying to sell me! then I thought it was time for me to make my feet feel for Canada ... I am comfortably situated in Canada, working for George Harris, one of the persons that act a part in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ He was a slave a few years ago in Kentucky, and now owns a farm so level that there is not hills enough on it to hide a dog ... making the professions that you do, pretending to be a follower of Christ, and tormenting me and my little ones as you have done — had better repair the breaches you have made among us in this world, by sending my wife and children to me ... I subscribe myself one of the abused of America, but one of the justified and honored of Canada. Jackson Whitney.” Many fugitives found their way to Sandwich Canada after the Fugitive Slave Act. In fact there is another article in this issue, “The Fugitive Slaves of Canada West,” which claims 10,000 fugitives poured into Canada west after the Act passed. there are several other fascinating reports, “Fugitive Slaves in Boston and New Bedford,” “Slavery at Pike’s Peak,” “Slave Whipped To Death,” and “Negro Arrests White Man as Fugitive Slave.”
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