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Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter
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This diagram, explained by a note written by Henry I. 鲍迪奇, shows the arrangement of members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League as they would surround a man-hunter, concealing him until he consented to release the person he was attempting to kidnap. The League was a secret society founded in Boston in 1854 to resist the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. 这个图, in pencil and watercolor on brown paper, places the slave hunter in the center (SH), surrounded by the speaker of the committee (S), a member to take hold of the hunter's head (C), two members to take hold of the arms (A1 and A2) and two for the feet (F1 and F2), and twelve additional members to form an outer circle to ward off intruders while the committee conveyed the victim to safety. 鲍迪奇's note continues, "One plagued in this way would not invite others to come & run the same risk of annoyance."
Henry Ingersoll 鲍迪奇
Henry Ingersoll 鲍迪奇 was a prominent Boston physician and abolitionist, born in 1808 to mathematician 纳撒尼尔 and Mary (Ingersoll) 鲍迪奇 of Salem. (见 online presentation of an 图像 of Henry I. 鲍迪奇.) While traveling in England in 1833, 鲍迪奇 attended the funeral of William Wilberforce, whose antislavery writings had deeply affected him, and upon his return to Boston in 1834, he fell under the sway of William Lloyd Garrison, becoming an enthusiastic participant in the nascent, and as yet unpopular, antislavery movement in Boston. After witnessing a Boston mob's 1835 attack on William Lloyd Garrison, 鲍迪奇 pledged in his diary to devote "his whole heart to the abolition of that monster slavery." In response to the 1842 arrest in Boston of George Latimer, 追求自由的人, 鲍迪奇 allied himself with William F. Channing and Frederick S. Cabot to form the "Latimer Committee," editing the Latimer Journal and North Star, a triweekly antislavery newspaper issued between November 1842 and May 1843. 鲍迪奇 remained committed to the antislavery crusade throughout the 1850s, lecturing and assisting other freedom seekers, 1854年, he was a founding member of the Boston-Anti-Man-Hunting League. 具有讽刺意味的是, 鲍迪奇的亲生儿子, 纳撒尼尔, was killed during the Civil War, which had been sparked by the debate over slavery. 战后, 鲍迪奇 continued to practice medicine in Boston, taught at Harvard Medical School, 1869年, founded and served as the first chairman of the Massachusetts State Board of Health. He died in January of 1892 at the age of eighty-three.
What was the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League?
The Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League was a secret society founded in 1854 in response to the kidnapping of Anthony Burns. More than 100 of Boston's leading citizens and reformers pledged to aid freedom seekers and resist the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 by whatever means necessary, including kidnapping the kidnappers themselves. Affiliated with the League of Massachusetts Freemen, the Boston group included such reformers as Samuel Gridley Howe, 约翰一. Andrew, Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker, Samuel May, Jr., and Henry Ingersoll 鲍迪奇. The Massachusetts Historical Society holds a collection of the League's records, which includes minutes of meetings, 宪法, 成员名单, and miscellaneous papers.
Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts
这个图 shown above is just one of the 840 artifacts, 肖像, 手稿, and other items featured in our online web exhibit, Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts.
Sources for Further Reading
鲍迪奇, Vincent Y. Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll 鲍迪奇. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902.
"Henry Ingersoll 鲍迪奇," American National Biography,卷. 3. New York: Oxford 1999.
"Henry Ingersoll 鲍迪奇," Dictionary of American Biography,卷. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
The MHS has several manuscript collections pertaining to 鲍迪奇 and his antislavery activities including the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League Records, 1846-1882; 鲍迪奇 Family Papers, 1800-1894; Henry Ingersoll 鲍迪奇 Papers, 1822-1903; and Papers Related to the George Latimer Case, 1842-1888.