Address of the committee appointed by a public meeting held at Faneuil hall, September 24, 1846
Subtitle: for the purpose of considering the recent case of kidnapping from our soil and of taking measures to prevent the recurrence of similar outrages
By: [by S.G. Howe ... et al.].
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: White & Potter, printers
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Slavery; Fugitive slaves; Legal status, laws; Antislavery movements; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Notes: Signed by S.G. Howe and thirty-four others.

The occasion of this meeting was the recapture by Capt. Hannum (of the brig "Ottoman") of George, a mulatto boy, who had embarked as a stowaway on his vessel in New Orleans. The slave had been discovered on the passage, and, being detained on an island in Boston harbor, had escaped to the mainland.

Reproduction of the original from the The American Antiquarian Society.