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The goal of the two swashbuckling abolitionists was not just to help people by the score escape from slavery and start a new life in the north. They hoped their tactics might add up to a strategy: that by stealing the human assets of the enslavers, they might destroy the slaveholders' faith in the profitability of treating people as property.
— Sep 10, 2026 12:39PM
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Torrey had closely followed the (abolitionist) movement, while on occasion also discovering that plenty of northerners had no objection to slavery - particularly if the alternative was accepting black people as equals.
— Sep 14, 2026 12:20PM