Subtitle: Arrest and Escape of Fugitive Slaves.
Title: Voice of the Fugitive - June 17, 1852
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer relates the story of two fugitive slaves being held in Detroit who escaped to Canada across the Detroit River.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century
Keywords: Canada; crime; Detroit; fugitives; law; Toledo; universal emancipation
People: Cass, Lewis
Publication type: editorials; Newspapers