The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history

by Wilbur Henry Siebert

3. Somersett case.

1772. England refuses to return a fugitive slave: Moore, Slavery in Massachusetts, 117; Cobb, Historical Sketch of Slavery, 163; Goodell, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, 44-52; Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, I, 189-193; Broom, Constitutional Law, 6-119; Howells, State Trials, XX, 1; Taswell-Langmead, English Constitutional History, 300, n.

4. Dalby's fugitive.

1786. Aided by Quakers in Philadelphia: Sparks, Washington, IX, 158; Applegarth, Quakers of Pennsylvania, 463.

5. Slave escaped from Drayton.

1786. Difficult to apprehend because, as Washington declared, there were "numbers who would rather facilitate the escape of slaves than apprehend them when runaways." Lund, Origin of the Late War, I, 20.

6. First recorded case of rescue. (Quincy's case.)

1793. Alleged fugitive rescued from the court-room in Boston: Edw. C. Learned, Speech on the New Fugitive Slave Law, Chicago, Oct. 25, 1850; Whittier, Prose Works, II, 129, "A Chapter of History"; Goodell, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, 232; Boston Atlas, Oct. 15, 1850; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 35.

7. Washington's fugitive.

1796, October. Public sentiment in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, prevents the return of a fugitive slave to President Washington: Magazine of American History, December, 1877, p. 759; Charles Sumner, Works, III, 177; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 35.