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Letter to] My dear Sir [manuscript

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Holograph, signedWilliam Lloyd Garrison asks several questions about the riot in Providence between sailors and colored people. Garrison writes: "These are perilous times, my dear friend, especially for the people of color. So infuriated are the whites against them, since the Virginia and North Carolina insurrections, that the most trifling causes may lead to a war of extermination."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814 1837
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  5. Riots
  6. Slave Insurrections
  7. Slaver

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