Shadrick Minkins
Posted on | August 14, 2009 | Comments Off
An important haven on the Underground Railroad: one enslaved man the Bigelows assisted was Shadrick Minkins, an escaped slave working in Boston who was captured for return to Virginia after the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Vigilance Committee member Lewis Hayden lead the crowd that rescued Minkins from his hearing in Boston, and brought him to the Bigelows at 3 am on Feb. 16, 1851, on his way to Canada, where Minkins became a restaurant owner and barber.Category: Historical Figures