Jesse Torrey

1834) 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 (Philadelphia, 1817).

[1][2][3][4] He also wrote juvenile guides to moral philosophy and natural history.

[5] In 1804, he established a free juvenile library in New York for boys and girls.

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Portrait of Jesse Torrey (1912)
Jesse Torre, Jr., depicted recording the narrative of free people who had been kidnapped