When was it published?

October 8, 1850 in Shepherdstown Register

Domestic News October 8, 1850

Shepherdstown Register

Q: What sub-type of article is it?

Riot Or Protest, Crime, Slave Related

Q: What entities or persons were involved?

Jackson Avens, Committee Of Vigilance For The Indian Land

Q: What keywords are associated?

Tarring And Feathering, Jackson Avens, Ebenezer, Abolition Declarations, Vigilance Committee, South Carolina

Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia

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What is this article about?

In Ebenezer, South Carolina, Jackson Avens was tarred and feathered by a vigilance committee for returning after prior expulsion due to abolitionist views, ordered to leave again under threat of hanging.

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TARRING AND FEATHERING.--We understand from one of the Committee of Vigilance for the Indian Land, that Jackson Avens who was ordered some weeks since by the citizens of Ebenezer to leave the State, for having made sundry Abolition declarations, returned to that neighborhood on Monday last. Avens was taken up, treated to a coat of tar and feathers, rode on a rail, and ordered once more to leave the State, with the injunction that if he was again caught within its borders, they would hang him.--South Carolina Miscellany.

What sub-type of article is it?

Riot Or Protest Crime Slave Related

What keywords are associated?

Tarring And Feathering Jackson Avens Ebenezer Abolition Declarations Vigilance Committee South Carolina

What entities or persons were involved?

Jackson Avens Committee Of Vigilance For The Indian Land

Where did it happen?

Ebenezer

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Ebenezer

Event Date

Monday Last

Key Persons

Jackson Avens Committee Of Vigilance For The Indian Land

Outcome

treated to a coat of tar and feathers, rode on a rail, ordered to leave the state, threatened with hanging if caught again

Event Details

Jackson Avens, previously ordered to leave the State by citizens of Ebenezer for abolition declarations, returned to the neighborhood and was taken up by the Committee of Vigilance for the Indian Land, subjected to tarring and feathering, ridden on a rail, and ordered to leave again with a hanging threat.