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This is a true story, and it happened to Williamsburg resident James Hamlet in 1850. Under the protection of the Fugitive Slave Act, Hamlet was legally kidnapped and taken out of state to Maryland. The slave catchers said he was an escapee named James Williams, who belonged to a woman named Mary Brown of Baltimore.
Excessive speculation and buying on margin
Some people were against the purchase, they thought president jefferson overstepped his constitutional authority by buying it.
