Figure 82: Captain Jonathan Walker
Maker: J. D. Westervelt
Sitter/Subject: Captain Jonathan Walker
Genre: studio portrait
Process: cabinet card; albumen print
Dimensions: cabinet card standard
b mid- to late 1860’s
Collection: Greg French
Notes: See Figure 83. Walker became famous as an abolitionist and slave-liberator after he was seized in 1844 at sea while attempting to bring seven escaped slaves to the Bahamas, a colony of the British Empire, where slavery had been abolished. A Florida court sentenced him to be fined and branded on the hand with the letters “S. S.” for “slave stealer.”