The Anti-Man-Hunting League

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The secret society called the Anti-Man-Hunting League was organized by Boston abolitionists in 1854 to prevent black people in the “free state” of Massachusetts from being kidnapped and enslaved. Its founders had been outraged to see federal troops hustle Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave from Virginia, through the city’s streets and onto a waiting vessel to be shipped back to his owner. They vowed not to let such an atrocity happen again. Almost 500 men, white and black, joined the League, which met every two weeks . Members practiced their plan to kidnap visiting slave catchers, who were known to stay at the swanky Revere House and persuade them, with leaded billy clubs if necessary, to return to the South empty-handed. They never had a chance
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