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Lewis Hayden

Hayden was one of the men who helped rescue fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins from federal custody in 1851.


Edward G. Walker

Walker was an abolitionist who in 1851 collaborated with attorney Robert Morris and activist Lewis Hayden of the Boston Vigilance Committee to gain the release of Shadrach Minkins, a fugitive slave from Virginia who had been arrested in Boston by US Marshals under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.


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