On today's episode we tell the story of Shadrack Minkins, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and what it means to be a human being in America.
Boston Slave Catcher Notice, 1851
1849 Virginia Sale Listing for Shadrack Minkins
Lewis Hayden
Daniel Webster
President Millard Filmore
SOURCES
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Fugitive_Slave_Laws#start_entry
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Minkins_Shadrach_d_1875#start_entry
http://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=A0064
RESOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY or “How to be a Better White Person”
https://slavedwellingproject.org/
http://www.notyourmommashistory.com/
https://www.monticello.org/visit/tickets-tours/hemings-family-tour/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/