"Mr. Filmore said that we should be returned. He gave instructions for military force to be sent to Boston to assist the officers in making the arrest."
Amazing story in this book:
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
โฆescape to freedom in Boston!
Plot twist: Fugitive Slave Bill passes
"Our old masters, having heard how their agents were treated at Boston, wrote to Mr. Filmore, who was then President of the States, to know what he could do to have us sent back to slavery."
Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Freedman's bank, set up 1865 for former slaves, looted by speculators, failed 1874, no federal guarantee, half of all deposits lost. No indictments. Bank building pictured below, Washington DC, USA, demolished 1899.