2-329-884 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Abduction of William Morgan, New York, USA, 1826 (c1880). Morgan was an American opponent of Freemasonry. After he threatened to write a book divulging Freemasonry's 'secrets', he was abducted and disappeared. His disappearance and apparent murder led to the establishment of a powerful anti-masonic movement in the United States. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.