Letter from Aaron Macy Powell, Ghent, N.Y., to William Lloyd Garrison, May 8, 1861
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Letter ends abruptly mid-sentence. Final page(s) missing. Authorship is not identified on document, but contextual clues suggest Aaron Macy Powell, which is confirmed by the card catalog entry. Manuscript is continued under call number MS A.1.2 v.31, p.46B.Aaron Macy Powell writes to William Lloyd Garrison expressing their regrets that that Garrison family was unable to attend their wedding ceremony. Powell expresses his hope that "this extraordinary revolutionary awakening" taking place over the nation will result in the quick death of slavery. Powell commends Garrison's editorial on the war in the Liberator, and affirms that the present is "no time to furl the banner of genuine vital nonresistance".
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Digital CommonwealthKeywords
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Civil War
- Civil War, 1861 1865
- Correspondence
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy) 1832 1899
- Slaver
- United States