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Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, Slaveholders mollified. (search)
Slaveholders mollified.
in the winter of 1808, several Virginia planters went to Philadelphia to search for eleven slaves, who had absconded.
Most of these colored people had been there several years, and some of them had acquired a little property.
Their masters had ascertained where they lived, and one evening, when they returned from their acustomed labors, unconscious of danger impending over them, they were pounced upon suddenly and conveyed to prison.
It was late at night when this took place, and Friend Hopper did not hear of it till the next morning.
He had risen very early, according to his usual custom, and upon opening his front door he found a letter slipped under it, addressed to him. This anonymous epistle informed him that eleven slaves had been arrested, and were to be tried before Alderman Douglass that morning; that the owners were gentlemen of wealth and high standing, and could produce the most satisfactory evidence that the persons arrested were their s
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The tender Mercies of a slave-holder. (search)
The tender Mercies of a slave-holder.
In the year of 1808 a Southerner arrested a fugitive slave in Philadelphia and committed him to prison.
When he called for him, with authority to take him back to the South, the poor fellow seemed dreadfully distressed.
He told the keeper that his master was very severe, and he knew that terrible sufferings awaited him if he was again placed in his power.
He hesitated long before he followed the keeper to the iron gate, through which he was to pass out of prison.
When he saw his oppressor standing there with fetters in his hand, ready to take him away, he stopped and pleaded in the most piteous tones for permission to find a purchaser in Philadelphia.
His owner took not the slightest notice of these humble entreaties, but in a peremptory manner ordered him to come out. The slave trembled all over, and said in the fainting accents of despair, Master, I can't go with you!
Come out, you black rascal!
exclaimed the inexorable tyrant.
Com
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The Foreign slave. (search)
The Foreign slave.
Early in the year of 1808, a Frenchman arrived in Philadelphia from one of the West India Islands, bringing with him a slave, whom he took before one of the aldermen, and had him bound to serve him seven years in Virginia.
When the indenture was executed, he committed his bondman to prison, for safe-keeping, until he was ready to leave the city.
One of the keepers informed Isaac T. Hopper of the circumstance, and told him the slave was to be carried South the next morning.
Congress had passed an Act prohibiting the importation of slaves, which was to begin to take effect at the commencement of the year 1808.
It immediately occurred to Friend Hopper that the present case came within the act; and if so, the colored man was of course legally entitled to freedom.
In order to detain him till he could examine the law, and take advice on the subject, he procured a warrant for debt and lodged it at the prison, telling the keeper not to let the colored man go til