Charles Turner Torrey
- First Name
- Charles
- Additional Names
- Turner
- Last Name
- Torrey
- Born
- 21 November 1813
- Died
- 9 May 1846
- Profession
- Minister
- Note
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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" - Wiki link
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George Shepard Burleigh
- Related Places
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Maryland, Delaware, and Washington D.C.
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Massachusetts - Boston and eastern Massachusetts
- Associated Causes
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Free Black Civil Rights
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Underground Railroad
URR
- Free Soil Party
- Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
- American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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Abolition
- Religious Affiliation
- Congregational
- Media
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Sketch of Charles Torrey
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