By Lestey Gist, The Gist of Freedom American slaveholders wanted Anderson extradited to stand trial for murder, while Canadian and British abolitionists felt that 'a slave attempting to escape from bondage, and killing the person who attempted to re-enslave him, did not, according to the common law, commit murder, but justifiable homicide, and that the rendition of […]
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