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File:1817 Torrey Portraiture of Slavery facing p46 The Author noting down the narrative.jpg

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Jesse Torre, Jr., depicted recording the narrative of free people who had been kidnapped

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English: Torrey designed the illustrations for his 1817 book, Portraiture of Slavery, hiring an artist and engraver to complete them.
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Author Alexander Lawson, sc., after Alexander Rider, del.

Captioned "The author noting down narratives of several freeborn people of color who had been kidnapped," published in Jesse Torrey, Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; And a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping. Copy scanned from Dickenson College, made available on Archive.org under Public Domain Mark 1.0 (no copyright), https://archive.org/details/DKC0168/page/n47/mode/2up

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