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American Anti-Slavery Society

"The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18"

Bonds must be given by the purchaser that this man
shall be carried South, and that he shall be kept South, and
sold, if sold again, to go South; and they declared their
intention to see the terms fully complied with. Long was
subsequently advertised for sale at Atlanta, Georgia.
_Near Coatsville, Chester County, Penn._ On a writ issued by
Commissioner Ingraham, Deputy Marshal Halzell and other
officers, with the claimant of an alleged fugitive, at night,
knocked at the door of a colored family, and asked for a
light to enable them to mend their broken harness. The door
being opened for this purpose, the marshal's party rushed in,
and said they came to arrest a fugitive slave. Resistance was
made by the occupant of the house and others, and the
marshal's party finally driven off--the slave owner advising
that course, and saying, "Well, if this is a specimen of the
pluck of Pennsylvania negroes, I don't want my slaves back."
The master of the house was severely wounded in the arm by a
pistol shot; still he maintained his ground, declaring the
marshal's party should not pass except by first taking his
life.


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