Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Jesse Torrey

Jesse Torrey, Jr., was a Philadelphia physician who gathered first-hand narratives by African Americans and eye-witness accounts by white observers of slavery and kidnapping. He published these, along with his personal observations, in an early anti-slavery book, A Portraiture of Slavery in the United States. He also wrote juvenile guides to moral philosophy and natural history. He was born in New Lebanon, New York; his father was Jesse Torrey, and he had a brother, Royal Torrey.