Samuel Eli Cornish, detail

Scanned by
New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 12, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Rev'd Samuel Cornish, paster of the first African Presbyterian Church in the city of New York
Source citation
Africana and Black History Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note

Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

Samuel Eli Cornish

Scanned by
New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 12, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Rev'd Samuel Cornish, paster of the first African Presbyterian Church in the city of New York
Source citation
Africana and Black History Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note

Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims

Castner Hanway (May, 1861)
Type: Description
Citation:
Samuel May, The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861), 20.
Body Summary:
Christiana, Lancaster County, Penn., Sept., 1851. Edward Gorsuch, (represented as a very pious member of a Methodist Church in Baltimore!) with his son Dickinson, accompanied by the Sheriff of Lancaster County, Penn., and by a Philadelphia officer named Henry Kline, went to Christiana to arrest certain slaves of his, who (as he had been privately informed by a wretch named Wm. M. Padgett) were living there. An attack was made upon the house, the slaveholder declaring (as was said) that he "would not leave the place alive without his slaves." "Then," replied one of them, "you will not leave here alive." Many shots were fired on both sides, and the slave-hunter, Edward Gorsuch, was killed.
    At a subsequent trial, a number of persons (nearly forty) were committed to take their trial for "treason against the United States, by levying war against the same, in resisting by force of arms the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law." CASTNER HANWAY was of the number. After suffering imprisonment, and being subjected to great loss of time and heavy expenses, they were all discharged.
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