Thomas Sims was an African American who escaped from slavery in Georgia and fled to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1851. He was arrested the same year under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, …

He was Thomas Sims, a 23-year-old runaway slave from Georgia whom the police had captured nine days earlier. In compliance with the recently strengthened Fugitive Slave Act, part of the …

Born enslaved in Georgia, Sims escaped bondage by hiding on a ship headed to Boston. A few weeks after his self-liberation, authorities captured Sims under the Fugitive Slave Law and …

The authoritarian nature and public spectacle of Sims’s case sent a resounding message to enslaved people who sought refuge in the North. It also inflamed anti-slavery sentiment, …

Feb 8, 2023 · This blog article tells the stories of two enslaved people, Thomas Sims and Anthony Burns, that escape in Boston, Massachusetts, and become fugitive slaves under the Fugitive …

Sims was convicted after a dramatic trial and returned to slavery in the South, disheartening local black residents and the abolitionist community. The public arrest and trial of Sims was one of …

Judicial Disobedience, Justice Lemuel Shaw and Commonwealth v. Aves.

SIMS' CASE 7 Cushing (Mass.) 285 (1851) Chief Justice lemuel shaw of Massachusetts, denying a writ of habeas corpus for a fugitive slave, delivered the first and most influential opinion …

This case is about slaves or slavery.

This picture from a Boston illustrated weekly shows how Sims was conducted by three hundred armed police and marshals to a navy ship that carried him back to slavery.