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The Milledgeville “Federal Union,” a newspaper of Georgia, in 1836, contained an offer of ten thousand dollars for kidnapping a clergyman residing in the city of New York.
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Sumner references a historical offer for the kidnapping of a clergyman in New York, illustrating the lengths to which pro-slavery advocates would go.
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