Ooft aye, that is heavy going, but HDT is right. And if states are to have any then he should’ve been left alone. Horrendous times no doubt for a lot of people nigh on 200 years ago. No one alive can possibly know this man, but he should be free.
(Upon reading of the trial of a man who had escaped slavery to Massachusetts only then to be arrested and returned to his ‘owners’ in Virginia).