Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Fugitive Slave Returned to Florida,” May 18, 1859

    Source citation
    “A Fugitive Slave Returned to Florida,” Charleston (SC) Mercury, May 18, 1859, p. 1: 7.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Charleston Mercury
    Newspaper: Headline
    A Fugitive Slave Returned to Florida
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    1
    Newspaper: Column
    7
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    A FUGITIVE SLAVE RETURNED TO FLORIDA. – The Hyannis (Mass.) Messenger of yesterday, says that the brig Rolerson, Captain Orlando, came into that port on Sunday, the 8th inst., with a fugitive slave on board. The slave had secreted himself on board the brig at Pensacola, and did not show himself until the vessel had been several days out, when he was forced to do so by hunger. The brig put into Hyannis with the man in irons, for the purpose of telegraphing to the U.S. Marshal at Boston, to be in readiness to take charge of him on the arrival of the brig at that city. The schooner Elizabeth B., Captain Bacon, then lying in port, was chartered for $500 to carry the slave to Norfolk, Virginia. Captain Bacon agreed to have him sent thence to Pensacola. The schooner sailed accordingly on Monday morning last, before the facts became publicly known – the slave being chained to the capstan.

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