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Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, 3 May, 1865

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Letter addressed from Anti-Slavery Office.Johnson writes Garrison to urge him to be "clear and emphatic" on two points in his resolutions and address for the upcoming anniversary meeting: one, that the proposal to dissolve the American Anti-Slavery Society is not a shirking of their duties, but a readjusting to the demands of those duties to better meet them; and two, that he introduce the "question of Negro Suffrage" at such a point to gain the upper hand over Phillips on the matter. Johnson remarks that the Herald has called for African-American suffrage as part of Johnson's Reconstruction of the South. Johnson closes by informing Garrison that African American abolitionists held a meeting at Shiloh Church in which they denounced the American Anti-Slavery Society's proposal to dissolve as being guilty of "bad faith", and complains that they have hardly ever supported the Society in its abolitionist efforts.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Abolitionists
  3. African Americans
  4. American Anti Slavery Society
  5. Antislavery Movements
  6. Congresses
  7. Congresses And Conventions
  8. Correspondence
  9. Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
  10. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  11. History
  12. Johnson, Andrew 1808 1875
  13. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  14. Lincoln, Abraham 1809 1865
  15. National Anti Slavery Standard
  16. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  17. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  18. Slaver
  19. Suffrage
  20. United States

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