Description

Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.James Frederick Otis writes to William Lloyd Garrison asking for "the best arguments against the payment, remunerative compensation of slaveholders, in care of abolition. Where is what you have written & said on the question?" He says the position of the American Anti-Slavery Society in their Declaration of Sentiments against compensating slaveholders caused a debate at a meeting of the local Young Men's Anti-Slavery Society and puts them against General James Appleton who argued that compensation was fair since all Americans share "equal responsibility for the sin of slavery in this land with the actual slaveholders." Otis says he believes that General Appleton is wrong and "the authorities on this point" will help him refute Appleton's arguments. He also suggests that Garrison include in the Liberator an anecdote found in the Memoirs of Hannah More, Volume I, page 147, "relative to the heroism of a colored servant."

Record Contributed By

Boston Public Library

Record Harvested From

Digital Commonwealth