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MeghanReddingClassProject 4 - 29 Aug 2012 - Main.IanSullivan
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| | | On October 4, 1842, George Latimer and his wife, Rebecca, escaped from Norfolk, Virginia. The pair hid beneath the deck of a northbound ship that took them to Baltimore. From there, they traveled to Philadelphia, with Rebecca posing as a servant to the lighter-skinned husband.[1] At last, they made their way to Boston, arriving on either October 7th or 8th.[2] This escape set in motion a sequence of events that would result in an uproar so great that Boston was, for a time, "without a doubt, the most potentially violent city in America."[3]
George Latimer was born in Norfolk, Virginia on July 4th, 1918. His father, Mitchell Latimer, was a white man and his mother, Margaret Olmsted, a slave belonging to his uncle Edward A. Latimer.[4] In George Latimer's youth he was owned by a man named Edward Mallery, for whom he worked as a domestic servant until the age of sixteen. After that time, Mallery hired him out. Latimer primarily worked driving a dray and as a shopkeeper. On two separate occasions he spent time in prison as a result of Mallery's debts.[5] |
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