Record Data
Source citation
"Thanksgiving In Prison," Rochester (NY) Frederick Douglass' Paper, January 1, 1852.
Newspaper: Publication
Rochester (NY) Frederick Douglass' Paper
Newspaper: Headline
Thanksgiving In Prison
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Michael Blake
Transcription date
Transcriber's Comments
Not sure which newspaper is the Exchange
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
THANKSGIVING IN PRISON. - Thomas L. Kane, Esq., of Philadelphia, (a son of the Judge,) sent six large turkeys, and a loaf of cake weighing 16 pounds, to the Christiana prisoners, for their Thanksgiving dinner. - The cooking was done in the prison. The white prisoners, Hannaway, Lewis, and Scarlet, dined in the room of one of the underkeepers, with the U.S. Marshal and several gentlemen. Mrs. Hannaway, who has spent most of the time with her husband, presided at the table, and also served each of the 27 colored "traitors" with a beautiful repast in their cells, and there being an overplus, all the prisoners in the same corridor were supplied in like manner. We doubt if any member of the administration which is seeking their lives, had a better relish for Thanksgiving dinner than these poor prisoners, who are to be offered as a holocaust to appease the "vengeance of the barracoons." - Exchange.