On this day 02/15 in Black History, one of the most straight up gangsta Black facts you probably never heard of in history class happened! A band of Black abolitionists raided a Boston courthouse and rescued Shadrach Minkins, a fugitive slave being held in custody (1851).
Minkins had been liberated by Nat Turner's rebellion, killing his owners, but was captured while on the job as a waiter in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.
After his daring courthouse rescue he escaped via the Underground Railroad to Montreal, Canada and with other Black expatriates (and his Irish wife) and created the city's first Black community. Minkins died in 1875, technically a man without a country, but a freeman... a free man.
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