By Lestey Gist, The Gist of Freedom David Ruggles, Black Abolitionist V. Riker's Island Richard Riker (Rikers Island named after him) [1773-1842] A lawyer and eventual judge who saw Free Blacks on the lowest social level possible. Adipta writes,'When seven-year-old schoolboy Henry Scott was seized as a fugitive slave from his classroom, the kidnappers forcibly […]
