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From:       Bequette Wixon <pupiparous () dammann-druckprodukte ! de>
Date:       2014-03-31 9:03:04
Message-ID: 53392DE0.2060301 () ifb-gruen ! de
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Ut that same evening word was brought that kidnappers were in the valley, a=
nd if we were not careful, they would "hook" some of us. This caused a grea=
t excitement among the colored people of the neighborhood. A short while pr=
ior to this, a number of us had formed an organization for mutual protectio=
n against slaveholders and kidnappers, and had resolved to prevent any of o=
ur brethren being taken back into slavery, at the risk of our own lives. We=
 collected together that evening, and went down to the valley; but the kidn=
appers had gone. We watched them for several nights in succession, without =
result; for so much alarmed were the tavern-keepers by our demonstration, t=
hat they refused to let them stop over night with them. Kidnapping was so c=
ommon, while I lived with the Doctor, that we were kept in constant fear. W=
e would hear of slaveholders or kidnappers every two or three weeks; someti=
mes a party of white men would break into a house and take a man away, no o=
ne knew where; and, again, a whole family would be carried off. There was n=
o power to protect them, nor prevent it. So completely roused were my feeli=
ngs, that I vowed to let no slaveholder take back a fugitive, if I could bu=
t get my eye on him. One day word was sent to me that slaveholders had take=
n William Dorsey, and had put him into Lancaster jail to await a trial. Dor=
sey had a wife and three or four children; but what was it to the slavehold=
er, if the wife and children should starve? We consulted together, as to wh=
at course to take to deliver him; but no plan that was proposed could be wo=
rked. At last we separated, determining to get him away some way or other o=
n the day of trial. His case caused great excitement. We attended the trial=
, and eagerly watched all the movements from an outside position, and had a=
 man to tell us how proceedings were going on within. He finally came out a=
nd said that the case would go against Dorsey. We then formed in a column a=
t the court-house door, and when the slaveholders and Dorsey came out, we w=
alked close t

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