Jerry Rescue monument, 1990

Download image

Scanned by
Cooper Wingert
Scan date
Image type
photograph
Source citation
Source note

Monument depicting the rescue of fugitive slave Jerry Henry on October 1, 1851 in Syracuse, New York. Black and white abolitionists stormed a federal hearing room and rescued Henry from proceedings under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, enabling Henry to make his way to Canada. 

How to Cite This Page: "Jerry Rescue monument, 1990," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/48005.