All 50 Uses
fugitive
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Harriet Tubman, by Petry
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- By 1826 there were so many fugitive slaves living in Canada that plantation owners in Maryland and Kentucky persuaded Henry Clay, then Secretary of State, to ask the Canadian Government to work out a plan whereby these fugitives, worth thousands of dolltirs, could be lawfully returned to their owners.†
Chpt 4fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- By 1826 there were so many fugitive slaves living in Canada that plantation owners in Maryland and Kentucky persuaded Henry Clay, then Secretary of State, to ask the Canadian Government to work out a plan whereby these fugitives, worth thousands of dolltirs, could be lawfully returned to their owners.†
Chpt 4fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- He asked for some kind of agreement in regard to the return of the hundreds of fugitive slaves living in Canada.†
Chpt 5 *fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- After five months had gone by, the Canadians said: "It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves."†
Chpt 5
- In the spring of the same year, Thomas Garrett, Quaker, who since 1822 had been offering food and shelter to runaway slaves in Wilmington, Delaware, was tried and found guilty of breaking the law covering fugitive slaves.†
Chpt 9
- Garrett, who was then sixty years old, answered: "Friend, I haven't a dollar in the world, but if thee knows a fugitive anywhere on the face of the earth who needs a breakfast, send him to me.†
Chpt 9
- It was composed of a loosely organized group of people who offered food and shelter, or a place of concealment, to fugitives who had set out on the long road to the North and freedom.†
Chpt 10fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- In January, 1850, Mr. Mason of Virginia said the existing law was inadequate: "You may as well go down into the sea and endeavor to recover from his native element a fish which had escaped from you as expect to recover a fugitive.†
Chpt 10fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- Mr. Clingman of North Carolina stated that there were some 30,000 fugitives in the North—worth $15,000,000.†
Chpt 10fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- She knew what a fugitive would do on the nights when it rained, and the North Star was obscured.†
Chpt 11fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- She soon learned that many of these people were fugitive slaves like herself.†
Chpt 11
- Sooner or later all fugitive slaves in the city went there seeking information about their relatives, or with requests for help of one kind or another.†
Chpt 11
- The Committee and its members were prepared to offer assistance to fugitives at any hour of the day or night; it might be in the form of food, clothing, money, railroad tickets, or a place to hide.†
Chpt 11fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- Quite often a party of fugitive slaves arrived while she was there, and she watched William Still write their names in the big notebook that he kept, not only their names but something of their history, too.†
Chpt 11fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- Anyone who saw them would know they were fugitives.†
Chpt 11fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- For her to attempt to bring them out when she was a fugitive herself would be an impossibility.†
Chpt 11fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- Even if this family bore no resemblance to any other fugitives, they still could not leave until they had obtained a bond signed by two well-known residents.†
Chpt 11fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- At each house, word was sent on to the next stop to be on the alert, to watch for this party of fugitives.†
Chpt 11
- Actually it only served to widen it, primarily because of the terms of the new law covering fugitive slaves.†
Chpt 11fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- In the letter he not only expressed his own conviction that the Fugitive Slave Law was wrong, but he eloquently expressed the refusal of the Abolitionists to obey the law: "....I am not a man who loves violence; I respect the sacredness of human life, but this I say, solemnly, that I will do all in my power to rescue any fugitive slave from the hands of any officer who attempts to return him to bondage......I will do it as readily as I would lift a man out of the water, or pluck him from the teeth of a wolf, or snatch him from the hands of a murderer.†
Chpt 12
- He was arrested in Boston, on February 15, 1851, charged with being a fugitive slave.†
Chpt 13
- George Ticknor Curtis, the United States Commissioner, who presided at the hearing, decided that Sims, who was a fugitive slave, must be returned to his owner in Georgia.†
Chpt 13
- He reached Savannah, Georgia, on the 19th, aboard the brig Acorn, which was owned in Boston, and had been chartered by the United States Government for the express purpose of returning the fugitive to his master.†
Chpt 13
- Syracuse was an Abolitionist stronghold, and the church bells were used to give the alarm whenever a fugitive was in danger.†
Chpt 13
- Her passengers, as she called the fugitives who would travel with her, would not be safe there, would not be safe in Boston or in Syracuse—or anywhere else in the United States.†
Chpt 13fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- The posters offering rewards for the fugitives could not be printed until Monday.†
Chpt 14
- In December, 1851, when she started out with the band of fugitives that she planned to take to Canada, she had been in the vicinity of the plantation for days, planning the trip, carefully selecting the slaves that she would take with her.†
Chpt 14
- He was the friend of all fugitives.†
Chpt 14
- A whole wall swung open, and behind it was a room where he could hide fugitives.†
Chpt 14
- In the foreword to his book he said: "While I knew the danger of keeping strict records, and while I did not then dream that in my day slavery would be blotted out, or that the time would come when I could publish these records, it used to afford me great satisfaction to take them down, fresh from the lips of fugitives on the way to freedom, and to preserve them as they had given them.†
Chpt 15
- William Still, who was familiar with all the station stops on the Underground Railroad, supplied Harriet with money and sent her and her eleven fugitives on to Burlington, New Jersey.†
Chpt 15
- Here they almost certainly stayed with Frederick Douglass, for he wrote in his autobiography: "On one occasion I had eleven fugitives at the same time under my roof, and it was necessary for them to remain with me until I could collect sufficient money to get them to Canada.†
Chpt 15
- Late in December, 1851, Harriet arrived in St. Catharines, Canada West (now Ontario), with the eleven fugitives.†
Chpt 15
- The fugitives boarded with her.†
Chpt 15
- She cheered on these newly arrived fugitives, working herself, finding work for them, finding food for them, praying for them, sometimes begging for them.†
Chpt 15
- And it was in May that the most dramatic of the fugitive slave cases began to unfold in Boston.†
Chpt 16fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave, who had escaped from his master in Virginia, was arrested and held in the Boston Courthouse.†
Chpt 16
- They said it showed how powerful the slaveholding South had become, that part of the United States Army should have been called out to assure the return of one miserable fugitive.†
Chpt 16
- If the temper of a city like Boston had changed so that it was necessary to call forth a small army to assure the safe return of one fugitive, then it boded ill for the future.†
Chpt 16
- The next day Garrett wrote a letter to J. Miller McKim, to let him know that this party of fugitives was on its way: Wilmington, 12 mo.†
Chpt 17fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- Nothing would ever stop her from helping them, not masters or slave catchers, or overseers or fugitive slave laws.†
Chpt 17fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- They were out in plain sight, all of them; anyone who passed would recognize them for what they were—runaways, fugitives.†
Chpt 18fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- It was dark when Harriet returned to the fugitives.†
Chpt 18
- She might have to take them on a train, and she couldn't ride on a train with her clothing torn, it was one of the earmarks of the fugitive.†
Chpt 19fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- Harriet remembered how Ben had blindfolded himself so he wouldn't "see" her that Christmas night she stayed in the corncrib with a party of fugitives.†
Chpt 19fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- The Fugitive Slave Law was still in force, though there were few people in the North who would willingly betray a fugitive.†
Chpt 19fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- In October, William Still recorded the arrival of sixty fugitives from the area in and around Cambridge.†
Chpt 19fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- In the back of her mind an old memory flared: the Sims boy, Anthony Burns, Shadrach, all of them arrested here in Boston, charged with being fugitives.†
Chpt 20
- And she was a fugitive, too.†
Chpt 20fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- And that Sanborn had said John Brown "is desirous of getting someone to go to Canada and collect recruits for him among the fugitives ....with H. [Harriet] Tubman, or alone......"†
Chpt 20fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
Definitions:
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(1)
(fugitive as in: she is a fugitive) someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, "fugitive" may describe something that lasts for a very short time; as in "a fugitive impression."