Canadian merchant, Richard Pattinson, attempts to recover fugitive slaves from the Michigan Territory. His appearance before the Justice of the Peace of the Huron/Detroit District is in vain, using Tucker v. Denison to deny extradition.
 

Washtenaw County banishes a Negro man from Scio for non-compliance with the Act to Regulate Blacks and Mulattoes (only known enforcement of the act).
 

First Baptist Church of Detroit accepts William Butler as its first African American member.
 

African American members of the First Baptist Church petition for an end to in-church segregation. Madison J. Lightfoot, Cornelius Mitchell, and William Scott are the first African American members to withdraw from the church; within a year all African American members left. They form the Second Baptist Church of Detroit, then called the Colored American Baptist Church.

Kalamazoo starts its first antislavery society.
 

William M. Sullivan of Jackson begins the American Freeman, the first antislavery newspaper in Michigan. Later in the year, it becomes the Michigan Freeman under the editorship of Seymour B. Treadwell.

The Havilands open the Raisin Institute in Lenawee County, the first school in Michigan to integrate students by race and gender.
 

Detroit establishes a system of free education, including one school for African American students.
 

Robert Cromwell is captured in Detroit by former owner David Dunn. He is rescued by the intervention of a judge and members of the local vigilance committee, William Lambert and George DeBaptiste.

George DeBaptiste, William Lambert and others submit a series of resolutions to the Signal of Liberty in support of Cromwell and others like him.

Twenty-two Kentuckians attempt to recapture 34 escaped slaves from Young's Prairie. They fail.
 

George DeBaptiste, William Lambert, Henry Bibb, Benjamin F. Dade, Alfred Derrick, Richard Gordon, M.J. Lightfoot and James Maten of Detroit issue a set of resolutions concerning the Crosswhite case in the North Star, a national antislavery newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass.

Slaveholders involved in the Young's Prairie Kentucky Raid sue seven Quakers in the U.S. Circuit Court in Detroit for the value of the fugitives they failed in recapturing.
 

Henry W. Bibb publishes his autobiography, Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself.
 

Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision states that black people cannot be citizens and that Congress has no power to outlaw slavery.
 

102 United States Colored Infantry, an all-black Michigan regiment, forms to fight on the side of the North.
 

13th Amendment abolishes slavery in the United States, stating that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
 

Resources

"Detroit African American History Project." Wayne State University. 6 December 2007 <http://www.daahp.wayne.edu/
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"Elizabeth Chandler Organizes the State's First Antislavery Society." This Date in Michigan History. (2006). Michigan History Online. 11 December 2007 <http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/date/december03/12_02_1830.html>.

"Francis Troutman and four other Kentucky slave catchers arrive at the home of the Adam Crosswhite family—Kentucky slaves who had escaped to Marshall." This Date in Michigan History. (2006). Michigan History Online. 6 December 2007 <http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/date/january03/01_27_1847.html>.

"Timeline of the Anti-Slavery Movement in Michigan." Margaret Gardner. (18 June 2006). Detroit Opera House. 3 October 2007 <http://www.motopera.org/mg_ed/educational/Timeline.pdf>.

"Timeline of Slavery, Resistance and Freedom (1837-1893)." Michigan History, Arts and Libraries. 3 October 2007 <http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_44390-158720--,00.html>.