Title: The man with the branded hand
Description: Walker was captured while attempting to smuggle slaves to freedom in 1844. He became the only man branded in a courtroom by a U.S. Marshal.  Once released, he remained active in the antislavery movement, participated in the Underground Railroad, and gave abolitionist lecture tours across the North.
Subjects: Abolitionists, Biography
Places: United States
People: Jonathan Walker (1799-1878)