Minkins, Shadrach
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Name (Latin)
Minkins, Shadrach
Other forms of name
Jenkins, Frederick, 1812-1875
Wilkins, Frederick
Date of birth
1812
Date of death
1875-12-13
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Barbers
Restaurateurs
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Minkins, Shadrach; Sherwood; Frederick Wilkins or Frederick Jenkins; fugitive slave; born 1812 in United States; Thomas Glenn from Norfolk, Virginia, probably owned Minkins; worked for Richard S. Hutchings and Company, which included a grocery and liquor store; fled to Boston as Frederick Wilkins or Frederick Jenkins (1850); became a waiter at the well-regarded Cornhill Coffee House where he was arrested and taken to the courthouse; traveled to Cambridge and then to Concord, Massachusetts; reached Montreal; operated several restaurants in Old Montreal (the mid-1850s); operated a barbershop in a community of free blacks in Montreal (by 1859); his case was one of four famous Boston fugitive slave cases that tested the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law; died 13 December 1875 in United States)
- Shadrach Minkins, 1997:CIP t.p. (from fugitive slave to citizen)