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Hughs served two years in prison for the money theft, and after his release he was a free. Corse was tried as an accessory to the robbery of John P. Darg in the Court of
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newspaper published a reward for Darg's missing slave Hughs, and stolen money. Hopper, and Corse (and possibly
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201:The Disappointed Abolitionists
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858:People from Camden, Delaware
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251:United States v. The Amistad
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