William Batchelder (-1854) was a US deputy marshal killed while guarding a federal hearing room during the 1854 rendition hearing for freedom seeker Anthony Burns.
ESSAYS: Finkelman
ROLES: Judicial Officer
Category: Judicial Officer
George and Susan Hilliard lived in Boston, where George served as a U.S. commissioner. Rather than enforce the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, George and Susan sheltered freedom seekers and in October 1850 tipped off freedom seekers Ellen and William Craft about efforts to recapture them.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: Judicial Officer // UGRR Operative
Joseph Hornblower (1777-1864) was the chief justice of New Jersey who defended the state’s personal liberty law while calling into question the federal 1793 Fugitive Slave Act.
ROLES: Antislavery Politician // Judicial Officer
Justo Treviño was a Mexican judge who investigated a pair of Louisiana slave catchers who attempted to recapture freedom seeker Mathilde Hennes in 1850.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Judicial Officer