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File name: 12_05_000027 Local call number: RARE BKS H.90.297 xxb Title: Citizens of Boston! Other title information: A free citizen of Massachusetts--free by Massachusetts laws until his liberty is declared to be forfeited by a Massachusetts jury, is now imprisoned Genre: Broadsides Created/Published: [Boston : s.n] Date issued: 1850-1859 (questionable) Physical description: 1 broadside ; 64 x 48 cm. Physical description note: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy includes two ink ownership stamps in the lower right corner. General notes: Title from item.; Text of this broadside reads, "Citizens of Boston! A free citizen of Massachusetts--free by Massachusetts laws until his liberty is declared to be forfeited by a Massachusetts jury, is now imprisoned in a Massachusetts temple of justice! The compromises, trampled upon by the slave power when in the path of slavery, are to be crammed down the throat of the North. The kidnappers are here. Men of Boston! Sons of Otis, and Hancock, and the "brace of Adamses!" See to it that Massachusetts laws are not outraged with your consent! See to it that no free citizen of Massachusetts is dragged into slavey, without trial by jury! '76." Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger. Subjects: Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) Collection: Anti-Slavery Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department

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