Where is this from? I read it in 1975. The New York Times?

[brownzorro]

I used this pre-internet and pre-google...although I did use mid-seventies Poetic License.

"The Fugitive Slave Bill 1850
An Act Respecting Fugitives
from and Persons
escaping the Servitude
Of their Masters
Arriving from:
Richmond, Norfolk,, New Orleans, Dorchester County, South
Carolina, Hartford County, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Prince
George’s County
Joe T. White
Would rather fight than eat.
Perry Johnson
Eye knocked out.

Charles Gilbert
Fleeing From Davis, A Negro Trader, Secreted Under a Hotel, Up a Tree,
Under a Floor, In a !icket on a Steamer.
/ey travel past old towns
Peering through cracks
In mailrooms and rail cars.
Newspapers mold in corners
near the furnace and obituaries
on page two are faces without names:
Harper Parker Rachel
Pennypacker Gilbert Garrison
Gibbons Cleveland Rhoades
White McKim Johnson
Fussell Goodwin Garrett
Purvis Furness
Mott Marian
Shipley Moore
Hopper Burris
Corson Miller
Harriet Tubman"

[brownzorro]

If there are no answers, I leave it to Poetic License.

[brownzorro]

Weaving found facts with metaphor...

[brownzorro]

...and Found Poetry.

[brownzorro]

Is there a website I can use to find the source?

[Danik 2016]

Googling the beginning I found the law:
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=The+Fugitive+Slave+Bill+1850+An+Act+Respe cting+Fugitives+from+and+Persons+escaping+the+Serv itude+Of+their+Masters&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=gHCvV__SJ7PL8geisb1g
But your text seems to be a quotation from a literary text.

[brownzorro]

Thank You! I found the source! I read well in Graduate School.!


Googling the beginning I found the law:

https://www.google.com.br/search?q=The+Fugitive+Slave+Bill+1850+An+Act+Respe cting+Fugitives+from+and+Persons+escaping+the+Serv itude+Of+their+Masters&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=gHCvV__SJ7PL8geisb1g
But your text seems to be a quotation from a literary text.

[brownzorro]

Thank you Danik!