So I have to do a presentation on John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "A debtor's prison poem". The poem is about someone he knows being incarcerated for a debt of 14 dollars... however, no matter how much I search online I'm having trouble finding who exactly he knew that was put in prison. I don't know if it was a brother or brother-in-law... Do you guys happen to know who it was? I'm having a lot of trouble finding background information about this and how the events of this person's life led to him being thrown into jail.
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