He tried to escape, but was
taken and lodged in Fincastle jail, Virginia.
THOMAS SCOTT JOHNSON, free colored man, of _New Bedford_, was
arrested near Portsmouth, Virginia, and was about to be sold
as a slave; but, by the strenuous interposition of Capt.
Card, certificates were obtained from New Bedford, and he was
set at liberty.
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, _West Chester County, Penn._, delivered
into slavery by Commissioner Jones. (July, 1851.)
DANIEL HAWKINS, of _Lancaster County, Penn._, (July, 1851,)
was brought before Commissioner Ingraham, Philadelphia, and
by him delivered to his claimant, and he was taken into
slavery.
_New Athens, Ohio, July 8, 1851._ Eighteen slaves, who had
escaped from Lewis County, Kentucky, were discovered in
an old building in Adams County, Ohio. Some white men,
professing to be friendly, misled them, and brought them to a
house, where they were imprisoned, bound one by one, and
carried back to Kentucky. [The enactment of the Fugitive
Slave Law is the direct stimulating cause of all these cases
of kidnapping.
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