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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerManuscript addressed to "William L Garrison No. 25 Cornhill Boston."James Miller M'Kim writes William Lloyd Garrison concerning arrangements for the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, scheduled to take place in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on Monday, August 7. M'Kim states his hopes for a "gatherine of the right Spirit", and expresses his conviction that they should have a strong turnout. M'Kim inquires if Garrison may lend his "presence & voice" to contribute to the meeting. M'Kim asserts that a prominent place in the proceedings will be devoted to the elaboration of the duties of the Pennsylvania states society as an auxiliary to the national organization. M'Kim requests that, regardless of Garrison's personal attendance, he use his influence to exhort other prominent abolitionist figures to attend. M'Kim stresses that they are particulary anxious to secure the participation of Frederick Douglass
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- Abolitionists
- African American Abolitionists
- African Americans
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810 1879
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
- Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803 1858
- M'kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810 1874
- Pennsylvania Anti Slavery Society
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884
- Pillsbury, Parker, 1809 1898
- Quincy, Edmund, 1808 1877
- Slaver
- Social Reformers