Subtitle: Enslaving of British Subjects.
Title: Voice of the Fugitive - February 12, 1851
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852)
The writer responds to a law enforced in some slave states that requires free black seamen (in this case British subjects) to be held in jails while ships are in their ports.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century
Keywords: Britain; British; England; jail; peculiar institution; seamen; ships; slave states; South Carolina
People: Mathew, G. B.
Publication type: editorials; Newspapers