Anna Johanna Piesch Seidel, influential Moravian / Catherine Looker, SSJ -- Fanny Kemble, British stage actress : Philadelphia abolitionist / Bernadette Balcer and Fran Pelham -- Assisium McEvoy, SSJ, education pioneer / Mary Helen Kashuba, SSJ -- Anna M. Ross, Civil War nurse / Janice Showler -- Agnes Repplier, essayist / Marie Hubert Kealy, IHM -- The Drexel women, educators and philanthropists / Stephanie Morris -- Anna Kugler, MD, medical missionary to India / Karen Getzen -- Cecilia Beaux, artist / Suzanne Conway -- Violet Oakley, artist / David R. Contosta -- Ida Tarbell, journalist, muckracker / Marie Conn -- Mary Brooks Picken, fashion designer, teacher, pioneer in distance learning / Kathryn West and Patrick McCauley -- Gertrude Hawk, candy entrepreneur / Mary Ellen O'Donnell -- Rachel Carson, environmentalist / David R. Contosta -- Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, computer pioneer / Lisa Olivieri, SSJ and Merilyn Ryan, SSJ -- Adrian Barrett, IHM, champion of the poor / Nancy DeCesare, IHM -- Judee von Seldeneck, diversity hiring expert / Nancy Porter -- Joan Dawson McConnon, co-founder, Project H.O.M.E. / Geralyn Arango.
Shows Reading Company owned, leased and operated lines in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, with an inset for Virginia and Maryland.
Shows the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey lines.
Shows other lines in which Reading Company has a substantial stock ownership.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
Contents
A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset -- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause -- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns -- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826 -- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence -- Arresting Margaret -- Arresting Edward Prigg -- Before the court -- Deciding Prigg -- After the court.
Summary
Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children, one of them born in Pennsylvania and forcibly removed them to Maryland in violation of Pennsylvania law. In the ensuing uproar, Prigg was indicted for kidnapping under Pennsylvania's personal liberty law. Maryland, however, blocked his extradition, setting the stage for a remarkable Supreme Court case in 1842.
