Abolition Riot of 1836

Quand

1836

Type

Émeute

Coordonnées

42.36° N, 71.06° W

Description

Courtroom disruption in Boston, Massachusetts

Placé à : town its description names, Boston.

Courtroom disruption in Boston, Massachusetts

The Abolition Riot of 1836 took place in Boston, Massachusetts in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In August 1836, Eliza Small and Polly Ann Bates, two enslaved women from Baltimore who had run away, were arrested in Boston and brought before Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw. The judge ordered them freed because of a problem with the arrest warrant.

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