On 15 February 1851, a crowd of African-Americans and abolitionists raided the Boston courthouse and rescued Shadrach Minkins, aka Frederick Jenkins, an imprisoned runaway enslaved person, then smuggled him to freedom in Canada.
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Cite this blog:
"Rescue of Shadrach Minkins, 1851." Historianspeaks, February 16, 2026. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/rescus-of-shadrach-minkins-1851.
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