Excerpt from Vermont's Anti-Slavery and Underground Railroad Record: With a Map and IllustrationsThe counsel for the defendant took exception to the statement that Dinah had served Mr. Jacob during the period of his alleged ownership, and that he had cast her Off when She had become helpless. They declared that she had con tinned in his family for several years only, when certain inhabitants of Windsor, having discovered that She was an excellent servant, had induced her to leave the family by the syren songs of liberty and equality, and thereafter She had spent the vigor of her life with these people. However, when she was no longer capable of labor, they were trying to compel Mr. Jacob to maintain her. At the time that Dinah had been enticed from his service, he had not attempted by legal means to reclaim her, deciding that he could not hold her as a slave under the State constitution. The counsel asked Whether it was equitable under these circumstances that their client Should be required to support Dinah in the decrepitude of her old age? They maintained that the authorities of Windsor should have taken advantage Of the act by which they could have warned her to leave the town.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.