Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Indiana House

Indiana House
This is perhaps one of the most infamous spots of Underground Railroad history, and it is here that a mob formed to prevent the slave-catcher David Ralston from capturing Anthony Hollingsworth, who was detained overnight at the hotel and freed by Judge Thomas White the next day, on the grounds that there was no constitutional evidence for the legality of slavery in Virginia—the state where Hollingsworth had left.  
The Indiana House was lost to a fire years later, and is now the building housing Fox’s Pizza.
Former Indiana House

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