First anniversary of the kidnapping of Thomas Sims by the City of Boston

First anniversary of the kidnapping of Thomas Sims by the City of Boston

Item Information

Title:
First anniversary of the kidnapping of Thomas Sims by the City of Boston
Description:
Call to a meeting at the Melodeon to be addressed by Rev. Theodore Parker to memorialize the arrest of the fugitive slave Thomas Sims and to express outrage at the action. Thomas Sims (b. 1834) escaped slavery in Georgia in 1851 and made his way to Boston. In April of that year he was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. He was put on trial in Boston before being returned to Georgia aboard a U.S. naval vessel. As with the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, who was arrested under the same law in 1854, the arrest of Sims incited the ire of northern abolitionists.
Date:
[1852]
Format:
Ephemera
Genre:
Broadsides
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston
Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
Sims, Thomas, approximately 1834-
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 broadside ; 104 x 71 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/70796c596
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
[Boston?] : s.n.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger.
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy 2 contains slight paper loss through the words "City of Boston."
Call #:
RARE BKS Cab.23.17.7 no.10 xxb c.2
Barcode:
39999063764037