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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Brooklyn, [Conn.], to Samuel Joseph May, Sept. 23, 1836

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison has gone to Boston with his family in order to be near Henry Egbert Benson, who will receive a medical experiment for his "shattered constitution." Charles C. Burleigh told Garrison that Isaac Knapp had no money to send. Garrison outlines the present financial difficulties. Now that Garrison's religious sentiments are known, it will cause a loss in subscriptions to the Liberator. Garrison inveighs against the "rottenness of Christendom."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.57.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, Henry Egbert 1814 1837
  4. Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus) 1810 1878
  5. Correspondence
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
  9. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  10. Slaver
  11. United States

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