Barney Corse

Barney Corse (November 2, 1799 – March 8, 1878)[1] was an American abolitionist, and leather merchant in New York City.

[7] Isaac T. Hopper, David Ruggles, and Corse had often worked together in abolition in New York City.

Corse had planned and directed the forerunner of the Quaker-run Underground Railroad in North Carolina.

[10] The next day, The Sun newspaper published a reward for Darg's missing slave Hughs, and stolen money.

Corse was tried as an accessory to the robbery of John P. Darg in the Court of Sessions in New York City on March 8, 1839.

[13] Corse died of "paralysis of the heart" (in modern terms most likely sudden cardiac arrest) on March 8, 1878, in Flushing, Queens, New York City.