Minkins, Shadrach

Life Span

01/02/1814 to 12/13/1875

Life Summary

Full name

Shadrach Minkins

Place of Birth

Norfolk, VA

Birth Date Certainty

Estimated

Death Date Certainty

Exact

Gender

Male

Race

Black

Date	Event
02/15/1851	Mob frees fugitive Shadrach Minkins after his arrest in Boston

Date	Title
02/20/1854	Issac Forman to William Still, February 20, 1854
05/07/1854	Issac Forman to William Still, May 7, 1854

Chicago Style Entry	Link
Collison, Gary Lee. Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.	view record

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