Book/Printed Material Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner (for charity's sake) in Washington Jail. Including a narrative of the voyage and capture of the schooner Pearl
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Image 1 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … O. Pelton Sc.- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 2 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … PERSONAL MEMOIR OF DANIEL DRAYTON, FOR FOUR YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS A PRISONER (FOR CHARITY'S SAKE) IN WASHINGTON JAIL, INCLUDING A NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE AND CAPTURE OF THE SCHOONER PEARL. We…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 3 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1853, by DANIEL DRAYTON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED BY HOBART & ROBBINS. NEW…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 4 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … ADVERTISEMENT. Considering the large share of the public attention which the ease of the schooner Pearl attracted at the time of its occurrence, perhaps the following narrative of its origin, and of…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 5 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner …- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 6 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … MEMOIR. I was born in the year 1802, in Cumberland County, Downs Township, in the State of New Jersey, on the shores of Nantuxet Creek, not far from Delaware Bay, into which…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 7 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 6 at these times, the women of the neighborhood used to collect at our house, as if looking up to my mother for counsel and guidance. I was only twelve years old…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 8 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 7 These advantages of education were not great, but even these I soon lost. Within five months from the time I was bound to him, my employer died. The factories were then…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 9 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 8 As I grew older this method of living stew and less satisfactory to me; and as I saw that no good of any kind, not even a knowledge of the trade…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 10 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 9 hands: the captain, or skipper, included. The men used to be hired, when I entered the business, for eight or ten dollars the month, but they now get nearly or quite…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 11 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 10 now mostly carried on by vessels of a larger class; some of them, especially the regular lines of packets, being very handsome and expensive. The terms on which these coasters were…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 12 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 11 in the boat, which was on deck, and which floated as she went down. I stood by the rudder till the last, and stepped off it into the boat, loath enough…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 13 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 12 length I got into an awful state, beginning to think that I had been so desperate a sinner that there was no forgiveness for me. While I was in this miserable…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 14 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 13 me by suggesting that, whatever it might be, it would take more sense and learning than ever I had to commit it. But I would not enter into his merriment. All…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 15 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 14 and my whole soul to be filled with joy and peace. This was the sort of change which I had been taught to look for as the consequence of getting that…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 16 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 15 hostile sects seemed to me unaccountable. I thought that all good Christians should love each other, and be as one family. Yet it seemed necessary to unite myself with some body…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 17 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 16 in which I suffered another shipwreck. We sailed from Philadelphia to Washington, in the District of Columbia, laden with coal, proceeding down the Delaware, and by the open sea; but, when…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 18 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 17 raging surf, which swept us onward towards the island already mentioned. The men there, anticipating what had happened, had prepared for its occurrence; and the best swimmers, with ropes tied round…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 19 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 18 fourteen hundred dollars. In this vessel 1 made two trips to Boston,—one with coal, and the other with timber. Having unloaded my timber, I took in a hundred tons of plaster,…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 20 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 19 of Virginia, and at a place caned Cherrystone traded off my damaged flour for a cargo of pears, with which I sailed for New York. I proceeded safely as far as…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 21 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 20 ground, and knocked off her rudder; and, in order to get her off, we were obliged to throw over the deckload. We drifted about all day, it still blowing and snowing,…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 22 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 21 my views upon this subject had undergone a gradual change. I knew it was asserted in the Declaration of Independence that all men are born free and equal, and I had…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 23 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 22 might have been to render such assistance, the more meritorious I should have thought the act to be. Why had not these black people, so anxious to escape from their masters,…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 24 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 23 Chesapeake, in a hired boat, a small black boy being my only assistant. Among other trips, I went to Washington with a cargo of oysters. While I was lying there, at…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 25 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 24 not something of an exploit to bestow the invaluab? gift of liberty upon seven of one's fellow-creatures—the season being now far advanced, I gave up the boat to the owner, and…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 26 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 25 where, according to the arrangement with the friends of the passengers, they were to be met and carried to Philadelphia. This was considerably more than the vessel could earn in any…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 27 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 26 Sayres against taking this young man with us. But English, pleased with the idea of seeing Washington, desired to go; and Sayres, who had engaged him for the season, did not…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 28 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 27 of man a bright promise of the universal establishment of civil and religious liberty.” He declared, in the same speech, “that the age of tyrants and of slavery was rapidly drawing…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 29 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 28 on board after dark on Saturday evening, and that we should sail about midnight. I had understood that the expedition had principally originated in the desire to help off a certain…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 30 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 29 of colored people wished to take passage with us down the bay, and that, as Sayres and myself would be away the greater part of the evening, all he had to…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 31 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 30 him to be black. He told me that he understood what was going on, but that I need have no apprehension of him. Two white men, who walked along the road…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 32 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 31 The wind kept increasing and hauling to the westward. Off Fort Washington we had to make two stretches, but the rest of the way we run before the wind. Shortly after…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 33 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 32 in. I knew nothing more till, waking suddenly, I heard the noise of a steamer blowing off steam alongside of us. I knew at once that we were taken. The black…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 34 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 33 To explain this sudden change in our situation, it is necessary to go back to Washington. Great was the consternation in several families of that city, on Sunday morning, to find…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 35 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 34 by playing cat's-paw to the slave-holders. Seeing how much the information was in demand, and anticipating, no doubt, a large reward, he turned informer, and described the Pearl as the conveyance…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 36 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 35 anchor, a part of the steamer's company remaining to guard her, while the steamer, having myself and the other white prisoners on board, proceeded up Coan river for a supply of…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 37 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 36 were not ready for any such violence, though all were exceedingly anxious to get out of me the history of the expedition, and who my employers were. That I had employers,…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 38 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 37 who was afterwards produced as a witness against me, was William H. Craig, in my opinion a much more conscientious person than Orme, who seemed to think that it was part…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 39 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 38 more sudden and summary proceedings; and what happened afterwards at Washington proved that these apprehensions were not wholly unfounded. The idea of being torn in pieces by a furious mob was…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
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Image 40 of Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner … 39 doubtless this desire which led me to make the statements sworn to by Orme and Craig, that I had no connection with the persons called abolitionists,which was true enough; that I…- Contributor: Drayton, Daniel - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Date: 1855
About this Item
Title
- Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton, for four years and four months a prisoner (for charity's sake) in Washington Jail. Including a narrative of the voyage and capture of the schooner Pearl
Names
- Drayton, Daniel, 1802-1857
- American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
Created / Published
- Boston, B. Marsh; New York, American and foreign anti-slavery society, 1855.
Headings
- - Drayton, Daniel,--1802-1857--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Trials--Washington (D.C.)
- - Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--Maryland
- - Abolitionists--United States--Biography
Notes
- - The author was convicted of aiding slaves to escape from Washington, D.C.
Medium
- 122 p. front. (port.) 18 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- KF223.D73 D73 1855
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 14019577
Online Format
- online text
- image