In October 1859 John Hossack, a Scottish-born merchant of Ottawa, Illinois, helped rescue the fugitive Jim Gray from a federal marshal. Convicted under the Fugitive Slave Law and sentenced by Judge Drummond, he rose to explain why the law of God and conscience compelled him to break the law of the land.
A short, stirring document of the Underground Railroad on the eve of the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.