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TIL in 1851, a runaway slave named Jerry was arrested in Syracuse NY during the anti-slavery Liberty Party’s convention. A crowd of hundreds of abolitionists broke into the city jail and freed Jerry, eventually smuggling him to Canada. Nine participants in the rescue also fled to avoid prosecution.

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