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Resolution of the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland

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National Freedmen's-Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript annotated on recto, with "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink above the letterhead.Joseph Cooper, writing on the behalf of the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland, pens a resolution welcoming William Lloyd Garrison as their guest, and honoring his "courageous and life-long labours for the abolition of Negro Slavery in the United States of America". The resolution further congratulates Garrison and his compatriots for their victory earned in the face of "so many years" of "fierce opposition", and greet Garrison as a representative of the American Freedmen's Union Commission. The resolution closes by commending the "establishment of Schools for the Freedmen" in the United States.
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Correspondence Manuscripts Resolutions
Contributors:
Cooper, Joseph, 1800-1881
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African Americans
  3. American Freedman's Union Commission
  4. Antislavery Movements
  5. Correspondence
  6. Education
  7. Freedmen
  8. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  9. Great Britain
  10. History
  11. Ireland
  12. National Freedmen's Aid Union Of Great Britain And Ireland
  13. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  14. Slaver
  15. Social Reformers
  16. United States

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