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Letter from Sophia Louisa Little, to William Lloyd Garrison and Amos Augustus Phelps

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Sophia Little writes William Lloyd Garrison and Amos Augustus Phelps a religious discourse on slavery, expressing her disagreement with Joseph Boyle's assertion that "God wills to destroy utterly this people", and states her conviction that Jesus will "spare this guilty country" as he would have "spared the cities of the plain if ten righteous men had been found there".
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  5. History
  6. Little, Sophia L. (Sophia Louisa) 1799 1893
  7. Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus) 1805 1847
  8. Religion
  9. Religious Aspects
  10. Slaver
  11. United States
  12. Women
  13. Women Abolitionists

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