Hyannis, MA

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Record Data

Place Unit Type

City or Town

Containing Unit

Barnstable County, MA

Events

Date		Type
11/18/1859	All defendants in the Columbus Jones kidnapping case acquitted in Massachusetts	Legal/Political
05/08/1859	Fugitive slave stowaway Columbus Jones arrives in chains at Hyannis, Massachusetts	Slavery/Abolition
05/09/1859	Fugitive slave stowaway Columbus Jones returned to the South from Massachusetts	Slavery/Abolition

People

Documents

Date	Title
05/18/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Fugitive Slave Returned to Florida,” May 18, 1859
06/04/1859	New York Times, “The Hyannis Fugitive Slave Case,” June 4, 1859
11/25/1859	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, "Untitled," November 25, 1859

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