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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.

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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