Extract from Theodore Parker's trial, 1854
Subtitle: [handwritten notes]
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1854
Place of publication: S.l
Language: eng
Subjects: Trials, litigation
Notes: Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a preacher, lecturer, and writer, a public intellectual, and a religious and social reformer. He was one of the earliest advocates of anti-slavery. After the passage of the fugitive slave law in 1850, every case of attempted rendition in Boston enlisted his personal activity. At the time of the rendition of Anthony Burns, an indictment was brought against Parker for resisting an officer of the United States in his attempt to execute process, based upon a speech delivered at Faneuil hall before an anti-rendition meeting. Popular opinion was so much on his side, however, that prosecuting him became a political impossibility. In 1855, the case was dismissed on a technicality.