Charles Turner Torrey

Sketch of Charles Torrey
Name
Charles Turner Torrey
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First Name
Charles
Additional Names
Turner
Last Name
Torrey
Born
21 November 1813
Died
9 May 1846
Profession
Minister
Note
His death in a Maryland penitentiary for aiding people escaping slaves was a major moment of martyrdom in the annals of Abolition, especially for Liberty Party adherents
Photo credit - from Memoir of the Rev. Charles T. Torrey, byJ. P. Lovejoy, ed., Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1847; Public Domain.
George Burleigh wrote a poem called "Freedom's Martyr"
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Related Places
L'Enfant Plan for Washington D.C. 1791Maryland, Delaware, and Washington D.C.
Fanueil Hall, BostonMassachusetts - Boston and eastern Massachusetts
Associated Causes
George S. Burleigh 1847 editorial in favor of Black suffrageFree Black Civil Rights
Harriet Tubman Black Heritage StampUnderground Railroad URR
Free Soil Party
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society 29th Anniversary ProgramAmerican Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty BellAbolition
Religious Affiliation
Congregational
Item sets
Burleigh Project People
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Freedom's MartyrsFreedom's Martyrs

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