Bell, John

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.John Bell writes to William Lloyd Garrison telling him to "ask the Rev. Mr. Phelps of Boston Agent of the antislavery Society ... [and] you will not doubt the sincerity of my feelings nor the truth of my statement." Bell then explains how a slave that escaped from the slave traders Franklin & Armfield was captured, and while being brought back to Alexandria by boat, "as to let the people see that he preferred death to slavery, he plunge himself into the Potomac [River] in sight of the Capitol & the tomb of Washington & drowned." He then asks Garrison to send the Liberator with this notice to the post office in Washington, D.C., "directed to John Bell."

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