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Notes To Introduction
1. “People vs. Alexander Merrill and Joseph Russell,” Oyer & Terminer, January 6, 1855, Document 3, Deposition by James H. Birch.
2. Benjamin Owen Sheekell, in an appearance before a magistrate in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 1853, concerning a complaint from Solomon Northup by his attorney, Henry Northup, testified that he and Birch had been partners prior to 1838 and “after that time he was a partner of Theophilus Freeman, of New Orleans. Burch bought here - Freeman sold there!” (Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave [1853]), 315.
3. Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 118.
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