Nathan Mead alias Alexander Hemsley (b. circa 1800 -
d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-051248
Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Sources:
Archival Sources -
New Jersey Supreme Court Case Files, 1835-6, Burlington County. Case 36286*: State of New Jersey v. Alexander Hemsley.
James Wood Poplar Grove Collection, SC 5807, Series 13, pp. 245 - 246.
"A Slave Case," Dorchester Aurora, 23 January 1837. Special Collections, MSA SC 4856.
Letter from William R. Stuart, President of Maryland Senate, to the President of New Jersey Senate. Mrs. Ford K. Brown Collection MSA SC 247: Materials Accumulated by Ezekiel F. Chambers, Judge from 1834 to 1851.
Newspapers and Journals -
Books -
Drew, Benjamin. The Refugee: A North-Side View of Slavery. Boston: John Jewett, 1854.
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Law. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Parenti, Christian. The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Taslitz, Andrew E. Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: a history
of search and seizure, 1789-1868. New York: New York University Press,
2006.
Internet Sources -
Documenting the American South. Narrative of Fugitive Slaves in Canada: Rev. Alexander Hemsley, pp. 32-40.
Documenting the American South. Payne, Daniel Alexander. History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Nashville, TN: A.M.E Sunday School Union, 1891.
Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census, Queen Anne's County, District 2, p. 2.
Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census, Kent County, Delaware, Mispillion Hundred, p. 7.
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