Oickle Alvin F. Oickle

Man with the Branded Hand (eBook, ePUB)

The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Captured While Attempting to Smuggle Slaves to Freedom in 1844, the Only Man Branded in a Courtroom by a United States MarshalSailing around the Florida Keys in 1844, forty-five-year-old Jonathan Walker had a price on his head. On board the small boat he had built that winter in Alabama were seven fugitives from slavery. The Cape Cod sailor and abolitionist was wanted in Pensacola, Florida, for his crime: stealing slaves. The slaves owners had posted $100 each as reward money for their property and $1,000 for Walker s apprehension. Only a day s sail from their goal of freedom in British-controlled Bahamas, Walker and the slaves were stopped and seized by bounty hunters and taken to a Key West court. Ordered back to Pensacola for trial, Walker ended up spending a year in jail. He was fined and sentenced to stand in the pillory; in addition, he was to suffer a unique punishment in American history: while a packed courtroom watched, a United States marshal was ordered to use a hot branding iron to burn the letters SS, for slave stealer, into Walker s right hand.Walker survived his ordeal, spending much of his incarceration in isolation. Once released, he remained active in the antislavery movement even while he and his devoted wife Jane raised their nine children. His attempt to help form a new colony in Mexico for runaway American slaves also led to punishing experiences for Walker and one of his sons. Living later with his family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the years before the Civil War, Walker made room in his crowded house to shelter runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. He participated in abolitionist lecture tours across the North where he would be urged to reveal his branded hand made famous by John Greenleaf Whittier s poem The Branded Hand to astonished audiences. Too old to enlist in the Civil War, Walker instead headed to Virginia in the war s final year to help educate African Americans fleeing Confederate forces. In The Man With the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist, distinguished journalist Alvin F. Oickle relates this entire remarkable story of a life devoted to the supposition that all men are created equal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Westholme Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781594165337
• Artikelnr.: 37927826

Autorenporträt

Alvin F. Oickle was an Associated Press writer, newspaper editor, and writing instructor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Stony Brook University, New York, before becoming a full-time author. He has written a number of books, including Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset.