This case involves a black family whose patriarch was named Adam Crosswhite, who escaped from a holder of persons who had used them as slave labor. Five years later reps. Of the “owner” discovered the family in Marshall, Michigan. The village soon realized what was happening and a crowd of resident abolitionists stormed to the home to prevent the abduction. In court this case became one of the more significant and direct attacks on the US 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. It included acts of resistance from the abolitionists, the black community of the area and most of all Adam Crosswhite who returned to Michigan from freedom in Canada to testify in court.
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