Shadrach Minkins case
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The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
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