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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 2: the Irish address.—1842. (search)
fourteen, while yet a shoemakers apprentice in Lynn, owing to the custom of serving black-strap to the workmen. Once master of him, it led him, with an occasional reprieve and vain attempt to establish himself in an honest employment on land, through every degree of abasement and physical suffering—now the literal bedfellow of swine, and now the victim of all those forms of torture which made the navy of his day truly hells afloat. At twenty-two, in the British service, he was flogged June 20, 1823. through Admiral Rowley's fleet at Port Royal, Jamaica, Sir C. Rowley, K. C. B. for desertion (not without cause), receiving one hundred and fifty lashes: he names the ships to which the launches were successively taken, and the fellow-sufferer who died Cf. Penn. under the terrible infliction. In January, 1824, he had Freeman, Mar. 25, 1847, p. 1. escaped to New York, and in September shipped for the first time in the United States navyin the North Carolina seventy-four at Norfolk.