Life Span
to
Full name
Passmore Williamson
Place of Birth
Westtown, PA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Estimated
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Occupation
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Quakers (Society of Friends)
Date Event
John Kintzing Kane, the U.S. District Judge who ruled against Passmore Williamson in the Jane Johnson case, dies in Philadelphia
Alleged fugitive slave arrested in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and sent that evening to Philadelphia
- The fugitive slave case of Daniel Dangerfield from Harrisburg causes popular excitement in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia, the U.S. Commissioner frees Harrisburg alleged fugitive slave Daniel Dangerfield
Date Title
New York Herald, "The Fugitive Slave," December 30, 1847
Boston (MA) Liberator, “The Philadelphia Slave Case,” August 17, 1855
N. R. Johnston to William Still, September 1, 1855
Abigail Goodwin to William Still, September 9, 1855
Memphis (TN) Appeal, "Arrest of Judge Kane," November 20, 1855
Thomas Garrett to William Still, December 19, 1855
Chicago Style Entry Link
Brandt, Nat, and Yanna Brandt. In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Williamson, Passmore," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6878.