Raynors HCA 2019-05
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“Anti-Slavery Tracts, No. 15. The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims.,” New York, 1861, 168pp., 4-3/4” x 7-1/4”, lacks spine but remains intact. The first 10 pages provide a legislative background of the Fugitive Slave Law. The next 150 pages “of this tract will be devoted to a record, as complete as circumstances enable us to make, of the Victims of the Fugitive Slave Law. It is a terrible record ....” The tract then continues with brief reports of hundreds of fugitive slave cases. As example, “Near Bedford Penn, October 1. Ten fugitives from Virginia were attacked in Pennsylvania - one mortally wounded ...” There is an alphabetical index provided at the end of the tract.
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