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John Anderson the fugitive slave... "headsman of the Tower" will not be replaced... Jefferson Davis is inaugurated...
John Anderson the fugitive slave... "headsman of the Tower" will not be replaced... Jefferson Davis is inaugurated...
Item # 700028
March 09, 1861
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, England, March 9, 1861
* Extradition case of John Anderson
* Canada West escaped slave w/ print
“The Fugitive Anderson” on page 3 is about John Anderson, the famous fugitive slave who escaped to Canada evading the pursuit of bounty hunters.
While on the run he killed a farmer who intended to legally recapture Anderson and send him back into his master’s custody. Anderson lived and worked in Canada West from 1854 to April 1860, managing to keep a low profile. He was eventually arrested and held by a magistrate in Canada.
Another article on him: "Release of Anderson, the Fugitive Slave" appears near the back and includes a print captioned: "John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave in Canada."
One of my favorite little tidbits I've seen in any newspaper is here. It is a page 10 article headed: "Death Of The State Executioner" and includes: "John Lund...died on Wednesday...He held the appointment for many years as Headsman at the Tower of London, whose duty it was to decapitate all state criminals...most likely the situation will be abolished...The last state execution took place in 1746...Mr. Lund was only seen at the Tower when the half-yearly muster took place...with a large bright hatchet on his shoulder."
The front page has an engraving captioned: "A Barber's Shop at Richmond, Virginia" which shows a Black man shaving a customer in a barber's chair.
Page 3 has reports headed: "United States" beginning: "Mr. Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, entitled the Confederate States of Americas, was formally inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama, on the 18th...The spectacle is described as the grandest ever witnessed in the South..." with more on this.
Complete in 24 pages, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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