Raynor HCA 2013-01
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Book, George Thompson, Hartford, hard bound, 377pp., former owners ID on front fly,1849, VG. An abolitionist's narrative of "The Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson, Who Suffered an Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary, for Attempting to Aid Some Slaves to Liberty." Thompson, Work, and Burr gained notoriety when they were arrested at gunpoint near the town of Palmyra, Missouri, on July 12, 1841, for aiding in the slave escape attempt. The escape had been planned in advance, but the slaves themselves betrayed Thompson, Work, and Burr to their masters. It is still unclear whether they voluntarily told of the escape plan or had it whipped out of them, but Thompson believed that the slaves likely thought the three men were kidnappers instead of abolitionists.
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