Pennington, J.W.C., fl. 1851 [Runaway slave]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09088 Author/Creator: Pennington, J.W.C., fl. 1851 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 29 April 1851 Pagination: 3 p. Order a Copy
A runaway slave in his own right, Pennington, while avoiding arrest in Liverpool, England, comments on the situation here in American and a fugitive slave case: "...My constant trouble of mind is the evils now pressing on my nation and people. What the end is to no eye human can forsee...[O]f the termination of the last Boston case - Thomas Sims has been given over to his claimant and has been taken back into Slavery. These cases are enough to break one's heart. It is difficult to see how the enormous evil and crime of Slavery can be carried to a greater extent. The whole land is full of blood...'Lord give us help from trouble'."
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