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1Author:  Paulding James Kirke 1778-1860Add
 Title:  The old Continental, or, The price of liberty  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: The old sugar-house to which our hero and his companion in misfortune were consigned, is still standing[1] [1]It has since been pulled down. to remind us of the sufferings of our fathers, and the price they paid for liberty. To those who have never seen the building, it may not be amiss to state that it is a large, massive, gloomy pile of red-stone, with narrow grated windows, which gives it the air of a prison; standing at the northeast corner of the yard of the Dutch church fronting on Liberty street, which, during the occupation of the city by the British, was used as a riding-school. The aspect of the structure is forbidding, corresponding with the recollections which will long accompany its contemplation, by the descendants and countrymen of many nameless and humble patriots that here became the martyrs to the oppression of a haughty parent, and a petty tyrant whose infamous name is forever associated with the recollection of their fate.
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