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The branded hand of Captain Jonathan Walker

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This photograph shows the hand of Captain Jonathan W. Walker, an ardent abolitionist. His hand was branded with the letters, "S.S.," for slave stealer, after he was convicted and sentenced for attempting to assist seven escaped slaves to freedom by sailing them from Florida to the West Indies in 1844. From the Daguerreotype collection Photo. 1.373
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