Ok only gonna post about this the one time but holy fucking shit I won a cyclocross race this weekend! 🏆
Greggles
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![When the slave catchers arrived in Boston on October 25, 1850, they vowed to get the Crafts “if [we] have to stay here to all eternity, and if there are not men enough in Massachusetts to take them, [we] will bring them some from the South.” As things turned out, they stayed five days and brought no one. Parker hid Ellen Craft in his house, where he kept a loaded revolver on his desk. William went to ground in the house of a black abolitionist who kept two kegs of gunpowder on his front porch and a veritable arsenal in the kitchen. Members of the vigilance committee put up posters around town describing the “man-stealers,” harassed them in the streets, and warned them on October 30 that their safety could not be assured if they remained any longer. They left on the afternoon train.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mitqv4rvfubnoo7osldetegx/bafkreid4litmtcs7ud32kirpmgalrsqby3q7pi7422zrpcquoxhqxh73gu)
![A skilled cabinetmaker, William Craft found work in Boston. He and his wife joined the church of Theodore Parker, head of the local vigilance committee, whose congregation included several other fugitive slaves. The publicity surrounding the Crafts naturally attracted their owner’s attention. As soon as the fugitive slave bill became law he sent two agents to recapture them. This was like throwing a rubber ball against a brick wall. Boston was the communications center of abolitionism. Under the “higher law” doctrine, blacks and whites there had vowed to resist the fugitive slave law. “We must trample this law under our feet,” said Wendell Phillips. It “is to be denounced, resisted, disobeyed,” declared the local antislavery society. “As moral and religious men, [we] cannot obey an immoral and irreligious statute.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mitqv4rvfubnoo7osldetegx/bafkreic3iqmawdueqgtimopohcbxtqzfzzpkh4exptgjbdrtvn5hafhgfi)
