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Excerpt: "The case of the capture and later freeing of "Daniel"  (Daniel Davis) in Buffalo, New York, in August 1851, received considerable publicity in the local and state newspapers as the first case in Buffalo following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The case itself was dramatic: Daniel had been struck on the head with a stick of wood during the course of his arrest, which resulted in the jailing of one of the slave catchers. The United States Commissioner at Buffalo (Henry Kendall Smith) was prepared to return Daniel to Kentucky as a fugitive slave, but a judge (Alfred Conkling) released Daniel on a writ of habeas corpus whereupon Daniel left for Canada. During Daniel's imprisonment, a letter appeared purporting to be from Daniel expressing his wish to return to slavery, but the letter was dismissed as a fake by Daniel's supporters, and reputed by Daniel after he had obtained his freedom."

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Excerpt: "The case of the capture and later freeing of "Daniel" (Daniel Davis) in Buffalo, New York, in August 1851, received considerable publicity in the local and state newspapers as the first case in Buffalo following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The case itself was dramatic: Daniel had been struck on the head with a stick of wood during the course of his arrest, which resulted in the jailing of one of the slave catchers. The United States Commissioner at Buffalo (Henry Kendall Smith) was prepared to return Daniel to Kentucky as a fugitive slave, but a judge (Alfred Conkling) released Daniel on a writ of habeas corpus whereupon Daniel left for Canada. During Daniel's imprisonment, a letter appeared purporting to be from Daniel expressing his wish to return to slavery, but the letter was dismissed as a fake by Daniel's supporters, and reputed by Daniel after he had obtained his freedom."
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http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny.daniel.1851.html
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FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE IN BUFFALO, AUGUST 1851
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