THE YEAR 1858 WAS MARKED BY THE VISIT OF JOHN BROWN, WHO HELD HIS "SECRET" CHATHAM CONVENTION DURING WHICH HE REVEALED HIS PLAN TO INCITE AN INSURRECTION BY THE SLAVES IN THE SOUTH.
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ted to the bar, after which she set up practice in D.C., though never receiving enough income to sustain herself. In 1893, when she died, her estate was valued at $150. Her obituary in the Washington Bee stated: “While she
may have been eccentric (sic) at times, she was a woman of kind disposition.”21 D&B
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Kashatus, Op. Cit: 59-60; Rhodes, Op. Cit: 12 3 Rhodes, Op. Cit: 15
4
Jane Rhodes, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Pro- test in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington, Indiana: 1998; 10; Bella Gross, “The First National Negro Convention.” Journal of Negro History, Oct. 1946: 435: William C. Kashatus, Just Over the Line (West Chester, PA: Chester County Historical Society, 2002): 57.
5
Peter C. Ripley, ed. The Black Abolitionist Papers, Vol. II, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991): 191-192.
Rhodes, Op. Cit: 36-40. 10 Rhodes, Op. Cit: 65-69.
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12 Rhodes, Op. Cit: 83-84 13
Ibid: 43-44; Cheryl MacDon- ald, “Last Stop on the Under- ground Railroad,” The Beaver, Vol. 70, Canada’s National History Society, February, 1990.
14 Ripley, Op. Cit: Introduction. 15
Daniel Hill, The Freedom Seekers, (Toronto: Stoddardt Publishing, 1981): 187.
16 6
Roderick W. Nash, “William Parker and the Christiana Riot,” The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 46, No. 1, January, 1961: 25.
17
Alexander Murray, “The Provincial Freeman,” Journal of Negro History, Vol. 4, No. 2, Apr 1959: 133
7 Rhodes, Op. Cit: 52 8 Ibid: 22.
Fred Landon, “The Negro Migration to Canada after the Passing of the Fugitive Slave Act.” Journal of Negro History, Jan. 1920: 23.
9 Ripley, Op. Cit: 184-185;
18 Rhodes, Op. Cit: 185-188. 19
John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd, The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid, (Harvard Univer- sity Press, 2012): 228; Rhodes, Op. Cit: 129-131.
Rhodes, Op. Cit: 132-133; Ripley, Op. Cit.
Leila Robinson, “Survey of Women Lawyers in the US – 1890,” The Green Bag, Vol. II, Boston, 1890: 13, 14, 28. 20 Rhodes, Op. Cit: 197-199. 21 Ibid: 211
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