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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Youngstown, (Ohio), to Helen Eliza Garrison, Aug. 16, 1847

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison compares Pittsburgh to a British manufacturing town. They travelled to New Brighton with Dr. Martin R. Delaney and other colored companions. They were welcomed by Milo A. Townsend, a true reformer. Though exposed to numerous anti-slavery lecturers, New Brighton remains generally incorrigible. No place could be obtained for the meeting, except the upper room of a store. The poetess Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (best known by the pseudonym Grace Greenwood) was at the meeting; Garrison called on her parents---Mrs. Clarke knew the Benson family in Brooklyn, Conn. The weather was exceedingly warm. Garrison travelled with Frederick Douglass to Youngstown in a canal boat. They stayed at the Mansion House, a "rum tavern" whose landlord is friendly to the abolitionist cause. Frederick Douglass was exhausted and voiceless and fears he has a swelling of the tonsils. Today, Garrison leaves for New Lyme.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.3, no.209.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Delany, Martin Robison 1812 1885
  5. Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
  6. Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. Greenwood, Grace 1823 1904
  9. History
  10. Slaver
  11. Townsend, Milo Adams 1816 1877
  12. United States

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