Warren Adams was a slave catcher whose attempt to recapture a family of freedom seekers in 1851 was thwarted when residents in northern Coahuila, Mexico, defended the freedom seekers with arms.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Category: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
William Cheney was a Louisiana slaveholder arrested in Mexico for attempting to recapture freedom seeker Mathilde Hennes in 1850.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Octave Delahoussaye was a Louisiana slaveholder.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Dickinson Gorsuch (1827-1882) was the son of Maryland slaveholder Edward Gorsuch and wounded while trying to recapture four freedom seekers at Christiana, Pennsylvania.
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Edward Gorsuch (1795-1851) was a Maryland slaveholder killed while trying to recapture four freedom seekers at Christiana, Pennsylvania.
ESSAYS: Jackson // Oakes // Pinsker
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Willard Green was a slave catcher involved in an 1847 attempt to recapture freedom seekers near Marietta, Ohio.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
George Henderson was a slaveholder in Williamstown, Virginia, who struggled to recapture a dozen freedom seekers who escaped into Ohio.
ESSAYS: Churchill
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Charles Mallory was a Confederate colonel and slaveholder who unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend from US forces in May 1861.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Edward Prigg (1791-1853) was a Maryland slave catcher convicted under Pennsylvania’s 1826 personal liberty law. Prigg appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction and struck down many Northern states’ personal liberty laws in Prigg. v. Pennsylvania (1842).
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher
Charles Rivers was a US slaveholder who emigrated to the Mexican province of Téjas with several enslaved people, four of whom successfully sued him for their freedom in 1831, on the grounds that Rivers had imported them illegally.
ESSAYS: Baumgartner
ROLES: Slaveholder / Slave catcher