Graves et al v. Indiana
Side One:
In 1847, three Kentucky men tried to capture Thomas Harris, fugitive slave in Bristol; a justice of the peace ruling freed Harris, who fled. In 1848, the Elkhart Circuit Court convicted the three men of causing a riot in 1847. In 1849, Indiana Supreme Court reversed Circuit Court based on 1842 Prigg v. Pennsylvania decision of U.S. Supreme Court.
Side Two:
This incident is an example of local judicial officers countering a pro-slavery federal decision.
The Underground Railroad refers to a widespread network of diverse people in the nineteenth century who aided slaves escaping to freedom from the southern U.S.
Marker is at the intersection of State Road 120 and State Road 15, on the right when traveling east on State Road 120.
Courtesy hmdb.org
