Jerry Rescue case
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The Jerry Rescue case was an 1851 abolitionist action in Syracuse, New York, in which anti-slavery activists freed an escaped slave from federal custody, becoming a prominent challenge to the Fugitive Slave Act and a symbol of Northern resistance to slavery.
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