Joseph L. Blodgett, from Charlemont, Franklin County, tells of being in Florida, and one day confronted by armed men, stripped, lashed eighty times, finally put on board a vessel going out of the state. The reason given was that he had “taught the Negroes in Jacksonville how to read, and that I knew of a Negro’s running away.” (Liberator, February 13, 1857)
Mass. Man Expulsion from Florida
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