Category: Antislavery Politician

Reuben H. Walworth (1788-1867) was chancellor of New York and declared the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional in Jack v. Martin (1835).

ESSAYS: Baker // Finkelman

ROLES: Antislavery Politician

Robert Winthrop was a US senator from Massachusetts.

ESSAYS: Oakes

ROLES: Antislavery Politician