What happened in the 1800's about slaves in Dover where some of them got hung over it,some kind to meeting?

Question

This thing happened after 1836. It was in Dover, it caused them to put patrols out at night to keep the slaves from meeting and gathering. Some one named Cave Johnson was speeding on the matter.

Answer 1

Dover and Kent County were deeply divided over the issue of slavery and was a "stop" on the Underground Railroad, due to its proximity to slave holding Maryland and free Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Cave Johnson (January 11, 1793 – November 23, 1866) was for fourteen years a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Tennessee. He was also the United States Postmaster General under James K. Polk from 1845-1849. He was born in Robertson County, Tennessee and died in Clarksville, Tennessee.