... Newburyport, and Mr. Higginson's parish contained sundry sea-captains who saw no sin in returning fugitive slaves to their owners. Later one of these very men took Sims, the runaway slave, back to Savannah . Mr. Higginson's frequent sermons on the abolition of slavery and his activity in furthering the crusade caused growing discontent in the parish; although it is said that even these unwelcome serm...