[1] The slaves aboard the Decatur had been shipped by Baltimore's infamous Austin Woolfolk.
As retold by historian Calvin Schermerhorn, the Decatur mutiny led to a famous instance of anti-abolitionist violence.
When pioneering abolitionist Benjamin Lundy covered Bowser's trial and execution, he reported that "Bowser forgave Woolfolk while walking to the Ellis Island gallows as the slave trader cursed him.
When Lundy ran into Woolfolk near the Baltimore Post Office the following winter, the slave trader attacked the abolitionist for smearing him.
Woolfolk was seven inches taller and as many years younger than the Quaker editor, who put up no resistance to being stomped on the head.