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2 unusual facts about Washington Goode


Washington Goode

In the effort to save Washington Goode from execution, 400 citizens of Concord, Massachusetts-including Henry David Thoreau, two of his sisters-Sophia Thoreau and Helen D. Thoreau, his mother-Cynthia D. Thoreau as well as Ralph Waldo Emerson signed the petition now known as the "Protest of 400...against the execution of Washington Goode."

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William Lloyd Garrison editor of The Liberator also became involved in the debate over the commutation of Goode's death sentence.



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