February 13, 1857
Joseph L. Blodgett, from Charlemont, Franklin County, tells of being in Florida, one day confronted by armed men, stripped, lashed eighty times, finally put on board a vessel going out of state. The reason given for his treatment was that he had taught “the Negroes in Jacksonville how to read, and that I was knowing to a negro’s running away. Both these statements were false.”
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