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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Brooklyn, [Conn.], to George William Benson, July 10, 1834

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison cannot promise to give an address to the colored people in Providence. He will stay will George William Benson. Garrison delights in the flora and birds in Brooklyn. Canterbury residents hung a dead cat on Prudence Crandall's gate. Garrison makes various puns on the incident, including that the "cat-astrophe will be duly chronicled."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.161.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, George William 1808 1879
  4. Correspondence
  5. Crandall, Prudence 1803 1890
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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