Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 · Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland, O., Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; [etc., etc.] · leaf 61
IN THE BARBARY STATES. 55 guide, and compelled to return.^ Another en- deavor was favored by a number of his own coun- trymen, hovering on the coast in a vessel from Ma- jorca, who did not think it wrong to aid in the liberation of slaves ! Another was promoted by Christian merchants at Algiers,… … Christians in bonds. If he were sufficiently courageous and devoted to do this, he paid the bitter penalty which similar services to freedom have found elsewhere, and in another age. He was seized by the Dey, and thrown into chains ; for it was regarded by the Algerine government as a high offence…
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