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Also in March. Daniel Webster. Abolitionists in his state attacked him immediately for the betrayal. Massachusetts abolitionists, enraged by the law, now wanted to test it in the courts. So did Southern slaveholders. Passed by Congress in , the Fugitive Slave Act required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states must cooperate.
Caphart, a man of nearly 60, ran a private slave jail and specialized in tracking down fugitives. He earned 50 cents a head for whippings. Caphart tracked Minkins to the Cornhill Coffee House, where he worked, and got a warrant for his arrest on Feb.
The next morning, Minkins was quietly arrested at work and taken the short distance to the courthouse. He alerted the mayor that there was likely to be trouble. Then he returned to the courthouse and barred all but the front doors. Guards were placed, but people were still allowed in. Within a half-hour, a crowd of about — many free blacks and some whites — filled the courtroom. By the time the hearing started, about an hour after the arrest, a mob of seething abolitionists stood outside.
The Fugitive Slave Act barred him from testifying or having his case heard by a jury. The hearing was a formality to make sure the papers for his return were in order. But Minkins, who had started the day a free man and now faced enslavement and certain punishment, was terrified. Outside, on Court House Square, the crowd stood fast. Someone suggested they could easily free Minkins if they rushed the courthouse.
After the rescue, Minkins was kept hidden and safe by abolitionists and free blacks, including George Latimer. Slaves laid bricks, worked at sawmills, caulked ships and handled cargo. Slave owners were trapped between their desire to keep valuable property secure and the need to allow slaves enough freedom to get to work in the shops and businesses huddled near the docks.
But there was reason to hope. Whole families had been known to reunite once free, and the notorious escapes from the rough docks gave Robert cause for optimism. Extra: A Richmond slave rode the Underground Railroad in unique fasion — inside a box. He hatched a plan with a friend in his church choir, a free black man named James Ceasar Anthony Smith, and a shoemaker and gambler named Samuel Alexander Smith. On March 23, , Brown crawled into the box.
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