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John Anderson was a runaway slave charged with the murder of a man during his escape to Canada. Ascertaining Andersonâ??s whereabouts, the United States demanded his extradition to South Carolina for trial. There was no slavery in Canada and the abolitionist movement was large there. Abolitionists argued that extraditing a black man to South Carolina for killing a white man was sentencing him to death. The case became one of Canadaâ??s most celebrated in the 19th century. Abolitionists were successful in persuading the courts to not comply with the US extradition request.

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