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Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter

Diagram to show the drill the Anti-Man-Hunting League had for the running off of a slave or man-hunter Ink on paper
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Ink on paper by Henry I. Bowditch, circa 1854-1859

45 1/2 inches x 39 5/8 inches

From the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League records


[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

This pencil-and-watercolor diagram shows how members of the Boston Anti-Man-Hunting League would surround a slave-hunter, or "SH," until he consented to release a captured slave. The League was a secret society founded in Boston in 1854 to resist the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.