A Slave Woman's Life After Escape

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John Stauffer, Outlaws Together; She fled North and found shelter in the family of a Boston minister, who chose to defy the Fugitive Slave Law and honor a 'higher law.' Wall Street Journal, Feb 24, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 23214148303948.html
(book review on Sydney Nathans, To Free a Family; The journey of Mary Walker. Harvard University Press, 2012)

Note:
(a) Frederick Douglass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
(born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c 1818-1895; born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland; in 1838 successfully escaped)
(b) The review says, "The most memorable female escape may be the one, based on a true story, recounted in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' of Eliza Harris crossing the Ohio River on rafts of ice with her child in her arms."

Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
(section 1 Sources)
(c) The surname Lesley is a variant spelling of Scottish surname Leslie. In turn, Leslie is a place in Aberdeenshire, Scotland of obscure origin.
(d) Milton, Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton,_Massachusetts
(a well-to-do suburb on Boston's southern border; The town was named Milton in honor of Milton Abbey, Dorset, England)
(e) The First Parish in Cambridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Parish_in_Cambridge
(The original church was built in 1632 [several streets from the current location)
(f)
(i) Brattle Street (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brattle_Street_(Cambridge,_Massachusetts)
(Provincial militia leader William Brattle, at one time the wealthiest man in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, is thought to be the Brattle for whom the street was named. He had the house at 42 Brattle Street built for him in 1727. Brattle tried to keep peace between patriots and the British, but after the 1774 incident known as the Powder Alarm, an angry mob surrounded his house and forced him to flee)
(ii) The English surname Brattle is derived from village of Brattle, near Ashford in Kent.

Brattle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brattle