How A Free Black Ohio Community Dealt With Slave Traitors
This is a story of how traitors were dealt with in the Black community. How A Free Black Ohio Community Dealt With Slave Traitors Heaven had its Lucifer. The Jews had their Judas. America had Benedict Arnold. And Rome had its Brutus. Every community across the world, every movement in all ages, has had its share of traitors - members of the community who are determined to derail the progress of the people for their own personal gain. Here is a true and remarkable story about how one such fiend was dealt a taste of his own medicine. Portrait of Laura Haviland From her book A Woman's Life Work (1881) While working on the Underground Railroad, abolitionist Laura S. Haviland, a White woman, assisted the Black community of Ohio in the punishment of a Black traitor. That person, a 'loafish mulatto' and 'a man of no principle' who went by the name of Robert Russell, hired himself out to a slave-holder in pursuit of a fugitive slave. It had been a whole two years since Ja