Williamson, the only white man involved, was arrested and charged with violating the Fugitive Slave Act.
Abolition Hall could hold up to 200 people,[REF] and was used for meetings of the Montgomery County Anti-Slavery Society - of which Corson had been a founder in 1837 - and for lectures by prominent abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass,[REF] Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison and Lucretia Mott [REF].