All posts tagged "Leverett Street Jail"
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55.0KMassachusettsDon Pedro, The Last True Pirate To Raid the Atlantic
Don Pedro, the handsome, ruthless Spanish pirate, apparently didn’t get the memo in 1832 that piracy was over in the Atlantic Ocean....
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15.6K1bostonBoston Gentlemen Riot for Slavery
In 1835, a gentlemen riot broke out among people who considered themselves respectable. They even dragged a magazine publisher through the streets...
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8.6K2Crime and ScandalJust One Kind of Murder in the 1850 Parkman-Webster Case
There was only one kind of murder in Massachusetts when the sensational Parkman-Webster case caught the world’s attention in 1850: The kind...
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