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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."

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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