Title: Weekly Anglo-African - March 2, 1861
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Anglo-African (1859 - 1862)
The writer relates the story of a fugitive, arrested for murder in Canada, who was freed by a Canadian court on a technicality in the reading of the Ashburton Treaty.
Description of file(s): one scanned, three columned, newspaper page
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century
Keywords: arrest; Ashburton Treaty; British; Canada; Creole; crime; Free Will Baptist; fugitive; government; law; Missouri; prison; Toronto Globe
People: Anderson, Mr.; Ashburton, Lord; Cinque; Diggs, Seneca T. P.; Draper, Chief Justice; Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882; Haggarty, Mr.; McDonald, Mr.; Palmerton, Lord; Richard, Mr.; Seabury, Dr.; Smith, Gerrit; Webster, Daniel
Publication type: editorials; Newspapers