Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
An authentic issue of the The Liberator, Boston, February 18, 1859, 4pp, disbound, slightly tanned, lightly foxed, VG. From the front page, two important and related reports, “Thirteen Negroes Captured in Kansas” and “The Kidnapping of Dr. Doy And Son.” In part, “Men, Women, and Children belonging to citizens in Platte, Clay, and jackson counties, Mo. in the charge of two Underground Railroad Agents, from Lawrence to Iowa! - Dr. Doy and Son! ... The most gallant achievement and effective vindication of our rights ever made since the war upon slave property has been inaugurated, ... Several valuable negroes having been stolen a few days ago from the county, a party followed them - found where they had crossed the Missouri into Kansas, in charge of three white conductors, ... The negroes were well armed, and would have made a deathly resistance had not the white men surrendered after the first fire - no one was killed - and the whole party was captured and brought into this city ...” The report then identifies each of the free blacks who were stolen. the second report details Dr. Doy’s arrest.
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