| Traveler's Names | isaac Fidget |
|---|---|
| Age | 30 |
| Description | dark and in intellect about equal to the average passengers on the Underground Railroad |
| Alias | – |
| Origin- Town/City | Berlin |
| Origin- County | Worcester |
| Origin- State | Maryland |
| Destination | Canada |
| Birthplace | – |
| Slaveowner's Name | Mrs. Fidget |
| Chapter Title | Part of the arrivals in December, 1855 |
| Page Number | 342 |
| Other Travelers | Thomas Jervis Gooseberry and William Thomas Freeman,Ezekiel Chambers, Henry Hooper, Jacob Hall and wife Henrietta and child, two men from near Chestertown, Md, Fenton Jones, Mary Curtis, William Brown, Charles Henry Brown, Oliver Purnell , Isaac Fidget |
| Other Conductors | – |
| Additional Names | – |
| Method of Travel | – |
| Additional Resources | – |
| Items in Possession | – |
| Full Narrative | OLIVER PURNELL and ISAAC FIDGET arrived from Berlin, Md. Each had different owners. Oliver stated that Mose Purnell had owned him, and that he was a tolerably moderate kind of a slave-holder, although he was occasionally subject to fractious turns. Oliver simply gave as his reason for leaving in the manner that he did, that he wanted his " own earnings." He felt that he had as good a right to the fruit of his labor as anybody else. Despite all the pro-slavery teachings he had listened to all his life, he was far from siding with the pro-slavery doctrines. He was about twenty-six years of age, chestnut color, wide awake and a man of promise ; yet it was sadly obvious that he had been blighted and cursed by slavery even in its mildest forms He left his parents, two brothers and three sisters all slaves in the hands of Purnell, the master whom he deserted. ISAAC, his companion, was about thirty years of age, dark, and in intellect about equal to the average passengers on the Underground Rail Road. He had a very lively hope of finding his wife in freedom, she having escaped the previous Spring; but of her whereabouts he was ignorant, as he had had no tidings of her since her departure. A lady by the name of Mrs. Fidget held the deed for Isaac. He spoke kindly of her, as he thought she treated her slaves quite as well at least as the best of slave-holders in his neighbor- THE FUGITIVE SLA VE BILL OF 1850. 343 hood. His view was a superficial one, it meant only that they had not been beaten and starved half to death. |
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