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| death_place = [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], Queens, New York City, New York, United States
| death_place = [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], Queens, New York City, New York, United States
| occupation = Lawyer, abolitionist
| occupation = Lawyer, abolitionist
| spouse = Mary Elizabeth Leggett (m. 1823–)
| spouse = Mary Elizabeth Leggett (m. 1823–1878; his death)
| children = 3
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== Early life and family ==
== Early life and family ==
Barney Corse was born on November 2, 1799, in [[Camden, Delaware]], to parents Lydia Troth and Israel Corse.<ref name="gen" /> He had five siblings,<ref name="gen" /> and the family was [[Quaker]]. Corse married Mary Elizabeth Leggett in 1823, and they had three children.<ref name="gen" />
Barney Corse was born on November 2, 1799, in [[Camden, Delaware]], to parents Lydia Troth and Israel Corse.<ref name="gen" /> He had five siblings,<ref name="gen" /> and the family was [[Quaker]]. His father owned a leather business on Jacob Street in Manhattan,<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 9, 1842 |title=Bankruptcy plee of Barney Corse |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-bankruptcy-plee-of-barn/14563431/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=[[New York Tribune]] |pages=3 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1884-10-10 |title=Jonathan Thorne |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times/11435369/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=[[The New York Times]] |pages=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> and was married twice.

Barney Corse married Mary Elizabeth Leggett in 1823, and they had three children.<ref name="gen" />


== Career ==
== Career ==
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=== Darg Case (1839) ===
=== Darg Case (1839) ===
[[File:The disappointed abolitionists LCCN2008661783.jpg|alt=The Disappointed Abolitionists (1838) by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson|thumb|''The Disappointed Abolitionists'' (1838) by artist [[Edward Williams Clay]] and lithographer [[Henry R. Robinson]]|300x300px]]
[[File:The disappointed abolitionists LCCN2008661783.jpg|alt=The Disappointed Abolitionists (1838) by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson|thumb|''The Disappointed Abolitionists'' (1838) by artist [[Edward Williams Clay]] and lithographer [[Henry R. Robinson]]|300x300px]]
On August 25, 1838, John P. Darg from [[Virginia]] had brought his [[chattel slave]] Thomas Hughes with him to New York City; and the state of New York had ended slavery a few years prior in 1827.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blassingame |first=John W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJBbh7oNZkkC&pg=PA209 |title=Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies |date=1977-06-01 |publisher=[[LSU Press]] |isbn=978-0-8071-0273-2 |pages=209 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=DeLisle |first=Lisa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ptYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36 |title=Profiles in Journalistic Courage |date=2018-04-27 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-30790-1 |pages=36–37 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> The laws for bringing human chattel to a free state was not yet defined in 1838. Thomas Hughes went to Isaac Hopper’s house, seeking temporary settlement.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Foner |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Foner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TlICBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT73 |title=Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad |date=2015-01-19 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-24438-0 |pages=73 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Hopper initially was reluctant, and asked Hughes to leave.<ref name=":1" /> The next day, [[The Sun (New York City)|The Sun]] newspaper published a reward for Darg's missing slave Hughs, and stolen money.<ref name=":1" /> Hopper, and Corse (and possibly Ruggles) served as go-betweens for Darg and Hughes.<ref name=":1" /> The money was spent by Hughs, so Hopper and Corse decided it was moral to return the missing money, so they put up their own money.<ref name=":1" />
On August 25, 1838, John P. Darg from [[Virginia]] had brought his [[chattel slave]] Thomas Hughes with him to New York City; and the state of New York had ended slavery a few years prior in 1827.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blassingame |first=John W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJBbh7oNZkkC&pg=PA209 |title=Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies |date=1977-06-01 |publisher=[[LSU Press]] |isbn=978-0-8071-0273-2 |pages=209 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=DeLisle |first=Lisa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ptYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36 |title=Profiles in Journalistic Courage |date=2018-04-27 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-30790-1 |pages=36–37 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Child |first=L. |date=December 7, 2020 |title=The Thomas Hughes Affair; an excerpt from Isaac T. Hopper by L. Maria Child (1854) |url=https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-thomas-hughes-affair-an-excerpt-from-isaac-t-hopper-by-l-maria-child-1854/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=[[Encyclopedia Virginia]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The laws for bringing human chattel to a free state was not yet defined in 1838. Thomas Hughes went to Isaac Hopper’s house, seeking temporary settlement.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Foner |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Foner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TlICBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT73 |title=Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad |date=2015-01-19 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-24438-0 |pages=73 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Hopper initially was reluctant, and asked Hughes to leave.<ref name=":1" /> The next day, [[The Sun (New York City)|The Sun]] newspaper published a reward for Darg's missing slave Hughs, and stolen money.<ref name=":1" /> Hopper, and Corse (and possibly Ruggles) served as go-betweens for Darg and Hughes.<ref name=":1" /> The money was spent by Hughs, so Hopper and Corse decided it was moral to return the missing money, so they put up their own money.<ref name=":1" />


The returned amount was less than the stolen amount of money, and Darg ordered Corse and Ruggles arrested for [[grand larceny]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Finkelman |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MrDnHmvpOtAC&dq=barney+corse&pg=RA1-PA79 |title=Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts: The Pamphlet Literature |date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-58477-742-7 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Corse made bail, but Ruggles was jailed for two days.<ref name=":1" /> ''The Disappointed Abolitionists'', was a published [[Lithography|lithograph]] caricature of Hopper, Ruggles, and Corse by artist [[Edward Williams Clay]] and lithographer [[Henry R. Robinson]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Javonte |date=September 2, 2021 |title=‘Soul of the Underground Railroad’: David Ruggles, the man who rescued Frederick Douglass |url=https://tangent.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/09/02/david-ruggles-first-black-bookstore-owner-antislavery-abolitionist-journalist-printer/8158701002/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=[[USA Today]] |language=en-us}}</ref> It suggested the trio was more interested in the reward money and extortion, and was not in the business of freeing slaves.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jaffe |first=Steven H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1ZSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 |title=Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics |date=May 2018 |publisher=[[NYU Press]] |isbn=978-1-4798-0460-3 |pages=76 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Local newspapers caused a furor for exposing the extreme dangers of abolitionist work.
The returned amount was less than the stolen amount of money, and Darg ordered Corse and Ruggles arrested for [[grand larceny]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Finkelman |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MrDnHmvpOtAC&dq=barney+corse&pg=RA1-PA79 |title=Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts: The Pamphlet Literature |date=November 13, 2012 |publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-58477-742-7 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Corse made bail, but Ruggles was jailed for two days.<ref name=":1" /> ''The Disappointed Abolitionists'', was a published [[Lithography|lithograph]] caricature of Hopper, Ruggles, and Corse by artist [[Edward Williams Clay]] and lithographer [[Henry R. Robinson]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Javonte |date=September 2, 2021 |title=‘Soul of the Underground Railroad’: David Ruggles, the man who rescued Frederick Douglass |url=https://tangent.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/09/02/david-ruggles-first-black-bookstore-owner-antislavery-abolitionist-journalist-printer/8158701002/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=[[USA Today]] |language=en-us}}</ref> It suggested the trio was more interested in the reward money and extortion, and was not in the business of freeing slaves.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jaffe |first=Steven H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1ZSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76 |title=Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics |date=May 2018 |publisher=[[NYU Press]] |isbn=978-1-4798-0460-3 |pages=76 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Local newspapers caused a furor for exposing the extreme dangers of abolitionist work.

Revision as of 07:53, 3 May 2024

Barney Corse
BornNovember 2, 1799
Camden, Delaware, United States
DiedMarch 8, 1878(1878-03-08) (aged 78)
Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, United States
Occupation(s)Lawyer, abolitionist
SpouseMary Elizabeth Leggett (m. 1823–1878; his death)
Children3

Barney Corse (November 2, 1799 – March 8, 1878)[1] was an American lawyer and abolitionist, active in New York City. He worked with Isaac T. Hopper, and David Ruggles to in the anti-slavery movement and protecting fugitive slaves and free Blacks from slave kidnappers.

Early life and family

Barney Corse was born on November 2, 1799, in Camden, Delaware, to parents Lydia Troth and Israel Corse.[1] He had five siblings,[1] and the family was Quaker. His father owned a leather business on Jacob Street in Manhattan,[2][3] and was married twice.

Barney Corse married Mary Elizabeth Leggett in 1823, and they had three children.[1]

Career

Corse was a member of the New York Manumission Society.[4] Isaac T. Hopper, David Ruggles, and Corse had often worked together in abolition in New York City. Corse had planned and directed the forerunner of the Quaker-run Underground Railroad in North Carolina.[5]

Darg Case (1839)

The Disappointed Abolitionists (1838) by Edward Williams Clay and Henry R. Robinson
The Disappointed Abolitionists (1838) by artist Edward Williams Clay and lithographer Henry R. Robinson

On August 25, 1838, John P. Darg from Virginia had brought his chattel slave Thomas Hughes with him to New York City; and the state of New York had ended slavery a few years prior in 1827.[6][7][8] The laws for bringing human chattel to a free state was not yet defined in 1838. Thomas Hughes went to Isaac Hopper’s house, seeking temporary settlement.[7][9] Hopper initially was reluctant, and asked Hughes to leave.[7] The next day, The Sun newspaper published a reward for Darg's missing slave Hughs, and stolen money.[7] Hopper, and Corse (and possibly Ruggles) served as go-betweens for Darg and Hughes.[7] The money was spent by Hughs, so Hopper and Corse decided it was moral to return the missing money, so they put up their own money.[7]

The returned amount was less than the stolen amount of money, and Darg ordered Corse and Ruggles arrested for grand larceny.[10] Corse made bail, but Ruggles was jailed for two days.[7] The Disappointed Abolitionists, was a published lithograph caricature of Hopper, Ruggles, and Corse by artist Edward Williams Clay and lithographer Henry R. Robinson.[11] It suggested the trio was more interested in the reward money and extortion, and was not in the business of freeing slaves.[7][12] Local newspapers caused a furor for exposing the extreme dangers of abolitionist work.

They were tried in the Court of Sessions in New York City.[10]

Death

Corse died on March 8, 1878, in Flushing, Queens, New York City.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (April 13, 1916). "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record". New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 190 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Bankruptcy plee of Barney Corse". New York Tribune. September 9, 1842. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-05-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Jonathan Thorne". The New York Times. 1884-10-10. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-05-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Foner, Eric (December 2014). "Gateway to Freedom: Sketches of a Caucasian past". Harper's Magazine. Vol. December 2014. ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  5. ^ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015-03-26). The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations. Routledge. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-317-45416-8 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Blassingame, John W. (1977-06-01). Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. LSU Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-8071-0273-2 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h DeLisle, Lisa (2018-04-27). Profiles in Journalistic Courage. Routledge. pp. 36–37. ISBN 978-1-351-30790-1 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Child, L. (December 7, 2020). "The Thomas Hughes Affair; an excerpt from Isaac T. Hopper by L. Maria Child (1854)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  9. ^ Foner, Eric (2015-01-19). Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-393-24438-0 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ a b Finkelman, Paul (November 13, 2012). Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts: The Pamphlet Literature. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-58477-742-7 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Anderson, Javonte (September 2, 2021). "'Soul of the Underground Railroad': David Ruggles, the man who rescued Frederick Douglass". USA Today. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  12. ^ Jaffe, Steven H. (May 2018). Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics. NYU Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-4798-0460-3 – via Google Books.
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