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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"The Escape of Shadrach Minkins, 1851." Historianspeaks, February 18, 2025. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/the-escape-of-shadrach-minkins-1851.
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