1851 FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Christians to Disobey the Government - Inscribed to Fellow Abolitionist Puritan she could heartily join

she could heartily join

in New Hampshire

unpublished letter

form Tuesday

1851 FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT. Christians to Disobey the Government - Inscribed to Fellow Abolitionist Puritan she could heartily joinA superb artifact and document issued during the high stakes season of political and spiritual resistance in Massachusetts following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The author, Jacob Gilbert Forman, was a minister in West Bridgewater who had taken a particularly uncompromising stand against the Act. In the present discourse, he explicitly compareds contemporary abolitionists to early Christian martyrs. While he did not attempt to equate