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In the three years after Sims’s return to bondage, Boston abolitionists, still ashamed of the city’s actions, helped more than 300 fugitive slaves avoid recapture, providing them with warnings about kidnappers, as well as money, food, clothing, alibis, and safe passage along the Underground Railroad network.
The "Sims Tragedy" was a major controversy among the abolitionists in Massachusetts and drew sympathy from many other abolitionists, as well. The following year, in 1852, his arrest and trial were remembered in a church ceremony featuring Reverend Theodore Parker.
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 returned him to slavery.
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 Slave Act of 1850.
The illustration is from a popular nineteenth-century publication. It shows reformer Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) addressing an April 11,1851 meeting to protest the case of Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave being tried in Boston.
Abolitionist Wendell Phillips spoke on behalf of fugitive slave Thomas Sims, and against the Fugitive Slave Law in 1851. Sims was later returned to Savannah where he was publicly whipped.
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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 the motivations for George L. Stearns to become more actively involved in the abolitionist movement.
