[14] Ibid., p. 249.
[15] Stevens, Anthony Burns, a History, p. 208.
[16] American Anti-slavery Society, Eleventh Annual Report, 1851, p. 31.
[17] The Voice of the Fugitive, April 9, 1851.
[18] Cong. Herald, May 13, 1861, quoted in American Missionary Association, 15th annual report, 1861, p. 28. There is evidence that the Fugitive Slave Law was used in some cases to strike fear into the hearts of Negroes in order to cause them to abandon their property. The Liberator of October 25, 1850, quotes the Detroit Free Press to the effect that land speculators have been scaring the Negroes in some places in the north in order to get possession of their properties.
[19] American Anti-slavery Society, Twenty-seventh Annual Report, 1861, p. 49.
[20] In The Liberator of July 30, 1852, a letter from Hiram Wilson, at St. Catharines, says: "Arrivals from slavery are frequent."
[21] The Voice of the Fugitive, July 29, 1852.
[22] Ibid., July 1, 1852.
[23] St. Catharine's Journal, quoted in The Voice of the Fugitive, September 23, 1852.