ORIGINAL 1851 GLEASON’S PICTORIAL: FUGITIVE SLAVE SIMMS BOSTON ABOLITIONIST RIOT
ORIGINAL 1851 GLEASON’S PICTORIAL: FUGITIVE SLAVE SIMMS BOSTON ABOLITIONIST RIOT

ORIGINAL 1851 GLEASON’S PICTORIAL: FUGITIVE SLAVE SIMMS BOSTON ABOLITIONIST RIOT

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Specifications

BindingDisbound
Place Of PublicationBOSTON
PublisherGleason’s Pictorial
TopicBLACK HISTORY
Country Of OriginUnited States
Original/FacsimileOriginal
Year Printed1851

The first two issues of Gleason’s, the first large format weekly pictorial newspaper, features extensive coverage of the first trial under the newly enacted Fugitive Slave Law. A mob of abolitionists tried to free Simms from custody resulting in the siege of the Federal courthouse in Boston.

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