page_title: Jesse Torrey
hierarchical_section_title: Jesse Torrey
caption_attribution_description: English: Jesse Torrey Jr. (1787-1834)
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Jesse Torrey, Jr., (May 25, 1787 – ca. 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). 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.
caption: Portrait of Jesse Torrey (1912)
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