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Boston Defies Trump on Immigrants the Way the City’s Abolitionists Once Fought Slavers

Precedent

Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants earned the ire of the mayor of Boston, where in a similar case in 1854, the city fought to protect a runaway slave.

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