"I would never obey it.... [They could] lock
me up in the Penitentiary on the hill; but if
they did such a foolish thing as that I had
friends enough on Onondaga County to level
it to the ground before the next morning."
- Reverend Luther Lee, 1855
What does Lee say he was prepared to do, rather
than obey the Fugitive Slave Act?
Sacrifice his friends
Burn his home to the ground
Go to jail
