Francis Jackson (born between 1815 and 1820), also known as Frank Jackson, was an African-American kidnapping victim. He was born free, but enticed into helping to drive horses to Virginia, a slave state, and was sold into slavery in early 1851. Besides escaping a number of times over seven years, there were three legal cases fought in Virginia and North Carolina. It seemed to be settled with the Francis Jackson vs. John W. Deshazer case when he was ruled to be free in 1855, but he was held as a slave until 1858. Jackson lived a continual cycle of being sold to new slaveholders, running away, getting caught, and then being returned to his latest owner.
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| - Francis Jackson (born between 1815 and 1820), also known as Frank Jackson, was an African-American kidnapping victim. He was born free, but enticed into helping to drive horses to Virginia, a slave state, and was sold into slavery in early 1851. Besides escaping a number of times over seven years, there were three legal cases fought in Virginia and North Carolina. It seemed to be settled with the Francis Jackson vs. John W. Deshazer case when he was ruled to be free in 1855, but he was held as a slave until 1858. Jackson lived a continual cycle of being sold to new slaveholders, running away, getting caught, and then being returned to his latest owner. (en)
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- United States Colored Troops
- Underground Railroad
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- African Americans in Pennsylvania
- John Young (abolitionist)
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- An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
- Maryland
- People from Mercer County, Pennsylvania
- People from New Castle, Pennsylvania
- Governor of North Carolina
- Botetourt County, Virginia
- The Liberator (newspaper)
- Slave state
- Baltimore
- 19th-century American slaves
- 19th-century births
- People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
- Union Army soldiers
- Droving
- A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
- Kidnapped American people
- Alexandria, Virginia
- American Civil War
- Fincastle, Virginia
- Governor of Pennsylvania
- Greenville, Pennsylvania
- Free Negroes
- William Stewart (Pennsylvania politician)
- Indian Run (Mercer County, Pennsylvania)
- Mercer County, Pennsylvania
- New Castle, Pennsylvania
- New London, Virginia
- Campbell County, Virginia
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| - Francis Jackson (born between 1815 and 1820), also known as Frank Jackson, was an African-American kidnapping victim. He was born free, but enticed into helping to drive horses to Virginia, a slave state, and was sold into slavery in early 1851. Besides escaping a number of times over seven years, there were three legal cases fought in Virginia and North Carolina. It seemed to be settled with the Francis Jackson vs. John W. Deshazer case when he was ruled to be free in 1855, but he was held as a slave until 1858. Jackson lived a continual cycle of being sold to new slaveholders, running away, getting caught, and then being returned to his latest owner. He was sold to as many as twelve slaveholders in Virginia, South Carolina, and ultimately in Moore County, North Carolina. An attorney, George Cameron Mendenhall, visited him in jail in North Carolina after he ran away from a nearby plantation. Believing Jackson's chain of events, Mendenhall filed legal proceedings that ultimately freed him in August 1858. During the time that he was enslaved, abolitionists from Pennsylvania tried to track him down and provide legal evidence and depositions that he was free. Their attempts were thwarted for years. Legal certificates of freedom were ignored and he was moved, making it harder for him to be found. After he was freed, he returned to the New Castle, Pennsylvania area and was married by 1860. Despite an infirmity, he enlisted in the United States Colored Troops and was honorably discharged. (en)
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