{"id":880,"date":"2019-11-02T00:38:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T00:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2020-01-20T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T12:54:51","slug":"william-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/uscommissioners\/william-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"William Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Sullivan (1803-)<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICE LOCATION: <\/strong>Indianapolis, IN<\/p>\n<p><strong>TENURE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEARINGS:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p><strong>RENDITIONS: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p><strong>CASES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Freeman Case (1853) &#8211; 1 released<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A wealthy African American resident of Indianapolis, Freeman was claimed as a slave, and arrested on a warrant issued by Commissioner William Sullivan. As public pressure gathered, and Freeman insisted that he was free, Sullivan granted a nine week adjournment. Later, the claimant&#8217;s son admitted he did not recognize Freeman, ending the case. Afterwards, the Indiana\u00a0<em>Free Democrat<\/em> reported that Sullivan &#8220;did not receive his appointment under the Fugitive Slave Act, but was appointed United States Commissioner for general purposes&#8230;. We have no doubt Mr. Sullivan engaged in this case against his own wishes&#8230;. we think Mr. Sullivan has shown a disposition to do justice to both parties, so far as the law under which he acts will permit.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/11\/1853-07-16-New-Lisbon-OH-Anti-Slavery-Bugle-John-Freeman-Case-p1-GB.pdf\">1853-07-16<\/a> New Lisbon, OH\u00a0<em>Anti-Slavery Bugle<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Sullivan (1803-) OFFICE LOCATION: Indianapolis, IN TENURE:\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; HEARINGS:\u00a01 RENDITIONS: 0 CASES:\u00a0 John Freeman Case (1853) &#8211; 1 released A wealthy African American resident of Indianapolis, Freeman was claimed as a slave, and arrested on a warrant issued by Commissioner William Sullivan. As public pressure gathered, and Freeman insisted that he was free, Sullivan granted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/880\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}