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Dorcas Allen was an American mother who killed two of her four children when the family was jailed by slave traders in 1837.[1] Tried for the murders, she was found not guilty for one of the deaths and the prosecutors then declined to take the second charge to trial. [2] She was remanded to the custody of slave trader James H. Birch, and her husband Nathan Allen was able to buy their freedom with donations from prominent, prosperous white in the District of Columbia including former U.S. president John Quincy Adams, who contributed $50.[3] The Allen family left the Disticy of Columbia and moved to Rhode Island.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Communication: "Horrible Barbarity" accounted for". Newspapers.com. September 16, 1837. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ Mann (2015), p. 9.
- ^ a b Mann (2015), p. 13.
Sources
edit- ——— (2015). ""Horrible Barbarity": The 1837 Murder Trial of Dorcas Allen, a Georgetown Slave". Washington History. 27 (1): 3–14. ISSN 1042-9719.
Further reading
edit- Asch, Chris Myers; Musgrove, George Derek (2017). "Our Boastings of Liberty and Equality Are Mere Mockeries: Confronting Contradictions in the Nation's Capital, 1815–1836". Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635866.003.0004. ISBN 9781469635873. LCCN 2017026934.
- Mann, Alison (2010). Slavery exacts an impossible price: John Quincy Adams and the Dorcas Allen case, Washington, DC (Ph.D. thesis). University of New Hampshire, Durham. 531.
- Nunley, Tamika (2021). At the threshold of liberty: women, slavery, and shifting identities in Washington, D.C. The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-6221-3.
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