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Dorcas Allen was an American mother who killed two of her four children when the family was jailed by slave traders in 1837.[1] Tried for the murders, she was found not guilty for one of the deaths and the prosecutors then declined to take the second charge to trial. [2] She was remanded to the custody of slave trader James H. Birch, and her husband Nathan Allen was able to buy their freedom with donations from prominent, prosperous white in the District of Columbia including former U.S. president John Quincy Adams, who contributed $50.[3] The Allen family left the Disticy of Columbia and moved to Rhode Island.[3]
- ^ "Communication: "Horrible Barbarity" accounted for". Newspapers.com. September 16, 1837. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ Mann (2015), p. 9.
- ^ a b Mann (2015), p. 13.