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Today is Jerry Rescue Day. On 1 October 1851 a fugitive slave named Jerry Henry was arrested in Syracuse, New York. A group of armed people took to the police station where he was being held and through overwhelming numbers returned him to freedom by force. A larger crowd outside helped his rescuers evade identification by the police.

While those who rescued Jerry were considered violent criminals by the state at the time, I believe that many of us today would consider them to be heroes who acted justly. I would hope that, since the project of abolition is far from over, we can continue to find the same bravery in our own time.

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rescue

(Note that Wikipedia claims at one point that Jerry was the man's "slave name", but the source from which I learned about this claimed that it was his preferred name, his given name being William Henry, also the name of his slaveholder father.)

#BlackHistory #JerryRescueDay #JerryRescue #slavery #abolition #abolitionist #Syracuse #NewYork #USpol #SyracuseNY #USHistory #CivilWar

Today is Jerry Rescue Day. On 1 October 1851 a fugitive slave named Jerry Henry was arrested in Syracuse, New York. A group of armed people took to the police station where he was being held and through overwhelming numbers returned him to freedom by force. A larger crowd outside helped his rescuers evade identification by the police.

While those who rescued Jerry were considered violent criminals by the state at the time, I believe that many of us today would consider them to be heroes who acted justly. I would hope that, since the project of abolition is far from over, we can continue to find the same bravery in our own time.

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rescue

(Note that Wikipedia claims at one point that Jerry was the man's "slave name", but the source from which I learned about this claimed that it was his preferred name, his given name being William Henry, also the name of his slaveholder father.)

#BlackHistory #JerryRescueDay #JerryRescue #slavery #abolition #abolitionist #Syracuse #NewYork #USpol #SyracuseNY #USHistory #CivilWar

Today is Jerry Rescue Day. On 1 October 1851 a fugitive slave named Jerry Henry was arrested in Syracuse, New York. A group of armed people took to the police station where he was being held and through overwhelming numbers returned him to freedom by force. A larger crowd outside helped his rescuers evade identification by the police.

While those who rescued Jerry were considered violent criminals by the state at the time, I believe that many of us today would consider them to be heroes who acted justly. I would hope that, since the project of abolition is far from over, we can continue to find the same bravery in our own time.

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rescue

(Note that Wikipedia claims at one point that Jerry was the man's "slave name", but the source from which I learned about this claimed that it was his preferred name, his given name being William Henry, also the name of his slaveholder father.)

#BlackHistory #JerryRescueDay #JerryRescue #slavery #abolition #abolitionist #Syracuse #NewYork #USpol #SyracuseNY #USHistory #CivilWar

Today is Jerry Rescue Day. On 1 October 1851 a fugitive slave named Jerry Henry was arrested in Syracuse, New York. A group of armed people took to the police station where he was being held and through overwhelming numbers returned him to freedom by force. A larger crowd outside helped his rescuers evade identification by the police.

While those who rescued Jerry were considered violent criminals by the state at the time, I believe that many of us today would consider them to be heroes who acted justly. I would hope that, since the project of abolition is far from over, we can continue to find the same bravery in our own time.

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rescue

(Note that Wikipedia claims at one point that Jerry was the man's "slave name", but the source from which I learned about this claimed that it was his preferred name, his given name being William Henry, also the name of his slaveholder father.)

#BlackHistory #JerryRescueDay #JerryRescue #slavery #abolition #abolitionist #Syracuse #NewYork #USpol #SyracuseNY #USHistory #CivilWar