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2 unusual facts about Pearl incident


Pearl incident

They fixed on Gamaliel Bailey, the publisher of the anti-slavery newspaper The New Era. As they suspected him because of his record of abolitionist publishing, a mob of slave owners almost destroyed the newspaper building, but were held off by the police.

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The two sisters and four brothers had all been "hired out" by their master to work for pay in the city.



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