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Exterior view, old Boston Court House, 26 Court Street, Boston, Mass.

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Entrances to the Court Street Station of the East Boston subway tunnel are seen to the right and left of the courthouse entrance. Young's Hotel is on the left side of the image. The building in back of the courthouse is old Boston City Hall. Text on the white sign on the right reads "Historic Boston Trolley Trips." The old Boston Court House was the site of cases involving Shadrach Minkins, Thomas Sims, and Anthony Burns in response to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Men
  3. African Americans
  4. Antislavery Movements
  5. Architectural Photography
  6. Burns, Anthony, 1834 1862
  7. Commercial Buildings
  8. Court Street (Boston, Mass.)
  9. Courthouses
  10. East Boston Tunnel (Boston, Mass.)
  11. Exterior Views
  12. Fugitive Slaves
  13. Historic Buildings
  14. Hotels (Public Accommodations)
  15. Minkins, Shadrach
  16. Municipal Buildings
  17. Public Transit
  18. Sims, Thomas, Approximately 1834
  19. Slaver
  20. Slavery
  21. Subway Stations
  22. Subways
  23. Trials
  24. United States
  25. United States. Fugitive Slave Law (1850)

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