Bibliography

Primary Sources

Newspapers

Alexandria, VA Gazette (Genealogy Bank)

• 1853-02-11 “Fugitive Slave Case in Pa.”

Alton, IL Telegraph (Newspapers.com)

• 1853-01-21 “The Fugitive Slave Case”

Alton, IL Weekly Courier (Newspapers.com)

• 1853-01-18 “Fugitive Slave Case!”

Baltimore Sun (Newspapers.com)

• 1851-07-04 “Fugitive Slave Case in West Chester”
• 1862-08-14 “Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun”

Boston Liberator (Newspapers.com)

• 1853-08-05 “Seizure of Another Victim”
• 1853-10-21 “Another Fugitive Slave Case”
• 1855-02-23 “Resignation of a U.S. Commissioner”

Burlington, IA Hawk-Eye (Genealogy Bank)

• 1855-06-25 “The Slave Dick”
• 1855-07-04  “The Case of the Negro Man Dick”

Chicago Democrat (Cornell University)

• 1851-06-07 “George W. Meeker”
• 1854-12-16 “Great Excitement–Slave Catchers Again Defeated”

Chicago Evening Journal (University of Memphis)

• 1860-11-13 “Great Fugitive Slave Excitement”

Chicago Free West (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)

• 1854-12-14 “Slave Hunt in Chicago”

Chicago Tribune (Genealogy Bank)

• 1860-11-13 “The Union Again Threatened”
• 1860-11-16 “The Eliza Grayson Case”

Chicago Tribune (Newspapers.com)

• 1857-12-03 “The Fugitive Slave Case at Indianapolis”
• 1857-12-05 “Another Fugitive Slave Case”

Chicago Western Citizen (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)

• 1851-06-10 “Slave Hunt in Chicago!”

Cleveland Herald (Genealogy Bank)

• 1855-03-21 “Fugitive Slave Case”

Cleveland Plain Dealer (Genealogy Bank)

• 1853-10-24 “The Fugitive Slave Case–Escape of Lewis–Great Excitement”

Concord, NH Independent Democrat (Genealogy Bank)

• 1850-11-07 “The Detroit Slave Case”
• 1852-11-11 George Bordley Case

Edwardsville, IL Intelligencer (Newspapers.com)

• 1897-03-16 “Touching Tributes”

Harrisburg, PA Pennsylvania Telegraph (State Library of Pennsylvania)

• 1851-10-15 “Fugitive Slave Case–Commissioner McAllister’s Administration of Law”
• 1859-04-04 “The Fugitive Slave Case”

Honesdale, PA Wayne County Herald (Newspapers.com)

• 1850-12-26 “Fugitive Slave Case”

Huntsville, AL Democrat (Newspapers.com)

• 1853-06-16 “The Fugitive Slave Law-Novel and Important Case”

New Lisbon, OH Anti-Slavery Bugle (Genealogy Bank)

• 1853-07-16 “The Case of John Freeman”

New Orleans Crescent (Newspapers.com)

• 1850-11-16 Appointment of U.S. Commissioner James L. Jones

New Orleans Times-Picayune (Newspapers.com)

• 1855-02-18 Resignation of U.S. Commissioner George W. Meeker

New York Herald (Newspapers.com and Genealogy Bank)

• 1850-12-28 “Alleged Fugitive Slave”
• 1854-06-19 “Arrest and Examination of Eight Fugitives”
• 1854-12-09 “Slave Excitement at Chicago”

New York National Anti-Slavery Standard (Accessible Archives)

• 1850-10-03 “The First Blood”

New York Observer (Genealogy Bank)

• 1854-07-06 “The Law Maintained”

New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

• 1854-07-04 “The Fugitive Slave Law”
• 1861-04-04 “Another Fugitive Slave Case at Chicago”

New York Tribune (Newspapers.com and Genealogy Bank)

• 1852-04-02 “Court Proceedings”
• 1852-04-05 “The Late Slave Case”
• 1852-04-06 “The Fugitive Slave Case”
• 1854-04-20 “Another Slave Catching Outrage!!”
• 1856-02-29 “Commissioner Pendery”

Palmyra, MO Weekly Whig (Newspapers.com)

• 1851-06-19 “The Fugitive Slave Case at Chicago”

Pennsylvania Freeman (Genealogy Bank)

• 1851-07-03 “Fugitive Slave Case”
• 1851-07-24 “Fugitive Slave Case”
• 1851-10-02 “An Aged Woman Sent into Slavery”
• 1853-02-03 “The Case of Richard Neal”
• 1853-02-03 Charles Wesley Case
• 1853-06-09 “Another Fugitive Case”
• 1853-08-04 “The Late Slave Case”

Philadelphia Inquirer (Genealogy Bank)

• 1853-01-24 “U.S. Commissioners’ Office”

Philadelphia Daily Pennsylvanian (Genealogy Bank)

• 1853-07-25 “The Fugitive Slave Case”
• 1853-07-26 “United States District Court”

Philadelphia North American (Genealogy Bank)

• 1852-11-08 “Fugitive Slave Case”

Philadelphia Press (Genealogy Bank)

• 1859-04-07 “The Fugitive Slave Case”

Pittsburgh, PA Daily Post (Newspapers.com)

• 1850-11-21 Commissioner Jacob Bowman Sweizer Appointment

Pittsburgh, PA Saturday Morning Visiter (Penn State University)

• 1851-03-22 “The Fugitive Slave Case”
• 1851-03-29 “The Fugitive Gardner”
• 1852-01-31 “Runaway Slaves”

Portsmouth, VA Daily Pilot (Library of Virginia)

• 1850-10-15 “The Fugitive Slave Bill and Commissioner Gardiner”

Raleigh, NC Weekly Register (Newspapers.com)

• 1851-02-12 “Died.”

Richmond, VA Daily Dispatch (Genealogy Bank)

• 1854-09-27 “Fugitive Slave Arrested”

Sandusky, OH Commercial Register (Genealogy Bank)

• 1856-02-28 “The Cincinnati Fugitive Slave Case”

Springfield, IL Daily Illinois Journal (Genealogy Bank)

• 1857-08-01 “Fugitive Slave Case”
• 1857-08-03 “Fugitive Slave Case: Decision of the Commissioner”
• 1860-02-13 “Rendition of a Fugitive Slave”

Springfield, IL Daily Illinois Register (Genealogy Bank)

• 1857-08-03 “Fugitive Slaves”

St. Louis, MO Republican (State Historical Society of Missouri)

• 1854-12-11 “What is to be Done Now!”

Washington, D.C. National Era (Newspapers.com)

• 1854-06-29 “Fugitive Law”

Washington, D.C. National Intelligencer (Newspapers.com)

• 1850-11-30 “Laying Down the Law”

Washington, D.C. National Republican (Newspapers.com)

• 1862-06-05 “Fugitive Slave Law Commissioners”
• 1862-11-05 “A Slave Case–A Sad Story”

Archival Collections

Clinton Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

• U.S. Commissioner John Ludlow Pendery Typed Autobiographical Statement

Historical Society of Dauphin County, Harrisburg, PA

• Simon Cameron Papers (correspondence with U.S. Commissioner Richard McAllister)

Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD

• Governors Papers (correspondence with U.S. Commissioner Richard McAllister)

Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO

• Governors Papers (correspondence with U.S. Commissioner Edward Ingraham)

National Archives and Records Administration, Philadelphia, PA:

• Record Group 21
  • Habeas Corpus Case Files, 1848-1862
    • 1851-01-22 Warrant of Arrest, Stephen Bennett

National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.:

• Record Group 217, Settled Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT:

• John White Geary Papers, MSS 212

Books & Pamphlets

Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago. Chicago: Wilson & St. Clair, 1868. [WEB]

Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, The Reputed President of the Underground Railroad. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke, 1880. [WEB]

Frazee, George. “The Iowa Fugitive Slave Case.” The Annals of Iowa 4, no. 2 (1899): 118-137. [WEB]

May, Samuel J. The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861. [WEB]

Norton, W.T. ed. Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois and Its People 1812 to 1912. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912. [WEB].

Phillips, Wendell. Argument of Wendell Phillips, Esq. Before the Committee on Federal Relations, In Support of the Petitions for the Removal of Edward Greely Loring. Boston: J.B. Yerrinton & Son, 1855. [WEB]

 

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