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Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The tender Mercies of a slave-holder. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The Foreign slave. (search)
The Foreign slave.
Early in the year of 1808, a Frenchman arrived in Philadelphia from one of the West India Islands, bringing with him a slave, whom he took before one of the aldermen, and had him bound to serve him seven years in Virginia.
When the indenture was executed, he committed his bondman to prison, for safe-keeping, until he was ready to leave the city.
One of the keepers informed Isaac T. Hopper of the circumstance, and told him the slave was to be carried South the next morning.
Congress had passed an Act prohibiting the importation of slaves, which was to begin to take effect at the commencement of the year 1808.
It immediately occurred to Friend Hopper that the present case came within the act; and if so, the colored man was of course legally entitled to freedom.
In order to detain him till he could examine the law, and take advice on the subject, he procured a warrant for debt and lodged it at the prison, telling the keeper not to let the colored man go ti
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, A slave Hunter Defeated. (search)
A slave Hunter Defeated.
In 1810, a slave escaped from Virginia to Philadelphia.
In a few months, his master heard where he was, and caused him to be arrested.
He was a fine looking young man, apparently about thirty years old. When he was brought before Alderman Shoemaker, that magistrate's sympathy was so much excited, that he refused to try the case unless some one was present to defend the slave.
Isaac T. Hopper was accordingly sent for. When he had heard a statement of the case, he asked the agent of the slaveholder to let him examine the Power of Attorney by which he had been authorized to arrest a fugitive from labor, and carry him to Virginia.
The agent denied his right to interfere, but Alderman Shoemaker informed him that Mr. Hopper was a member of the Emancipation Society, and had a right to be satisfied.
The Power of Attorney was correctly drawn, and had been acknowledged in Washington, before Bushrod Washington, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the U