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Was Charles a Desperado?
Wells works through the New Orleans papers' own search of Charles's room — Liberian emigration pamphlets, a missionary paper, a verse clipped from a church journal — and finds no evidence, only inference dressed as fact.
The press's search for evidence of a 'desperado'Liberian emigration pamphlets and Bishop Turner's Voice of Missions"Our Sentiments," the verse found in his roomThe unproven Vicksburg accusation