{"id":717,"date":"2011-02-11T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T01:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumberlandcivilwar.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2011-02-11T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T01:14:45","slug":"article-mcclintock-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/article-mcclintock-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Article &#8211; McClintock Riot (June 1847)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-718\" title=\"John McClintock\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2011\/02\/HD_mcclintockJ1-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2011\/02\/HD_mcclintockJ1-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/files\/2011\/02\/HD_mcclintockJ1.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMartha C. Slotten, <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Slotten2000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The McClintock Slave Riot of 1847,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Cumberland County History<\/em> 17 (2000): 14-35.<\/p>\n<p>In this definitive account of a June 1847 riot in Carlisle over fugitive slaves, Martha C. Slotten explains how two slaveowners from Hagerstown, Maryland \u2013 James Kennedy and Howard Hollingsworth \u2013 arrived in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9346\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County<\/a>, caught three fugitive slaves in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/19492\" target=\"_blank\">Shippensburg<\/a>, and then encountered disaster when they were hauled into court at the county seat for kidnapping.\u00a0 Slotten narrates the complicated legal maneuvers that resulted in a temporary judicial victory for the Maryland slaveholders but then produced a riot in the Carlisle town square that fatally wounded Kennedy.\u00a0 In her wide-ranging <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/library\/Slotten2000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>, Slotten provides vivid details about Dickinson College professor John McClintock, accused (falsely) of organizing the disturbance, free black residents in Carlisle who actually spearheaded the resistance, and the subsequent legal odyssey of those who were at first convicted but later released from prison by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in what became a dramatic blow to the federal fugitive slave system and a ringing endorsement for northern personal liberty statutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>This essay has been posted online with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicalsociety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County Historical Society<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha C. Slotten, &#8220;The McClintock Slave Riot of 1847,&#8221; Cumberland County History 17 (2000): 14-35. In this definitive account of a June 1847 riot in Carlisle over fugitive slaves, Martha C. Slotten explains how two slaveowners from Hagerstown, Maryland \u2013 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/article-mcclintock-riot\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article &#8211; McClintock Riot (June 1847)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cumberland150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}