{"id":539,"date":"2006-10-05T20:43:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T01:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/539"},"modified":"2006-10-05T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T01:43:23","slug":"the-ransom-of-douglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/the-ransom-of-douglass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ransom of Douglass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>January 15, 1847<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tells of how, soon after his arrival in England there were people intent on effecting legal emancipation of Douglass, &#8220;provided his ransom could be effected at a fair market value.&#8221; Garrison mentions names of some of the leaders in the effort, Anna Richardson, George Thompson, and says, &#8220;I also contributed my mite.&#8221;\u00a0 The total sum came to about $725.\u00a0 This ransoming has raised questions among Abolitionists, who have often maintained that to offer money to secure emancipation of a person is 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