On this day, 14 February 1851, a crowd of African-Americans and abolitionists raided the Boston courthouse and rescued Shadrach Minkins, aka Frederick Jenkins, an imprisoned runaway enslaved person, then smuggled him to freedom in Canada.
This Black History Month, if you haven’t yet, check out our podcast episode on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit: http://bit.ly/2FUAGbw http://bit.ly/2NdjorL