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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to John Anderson Collins, Dec. 1, 1840

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Holograph, signed.A ship's surgeon failed to deliver a letter written by William Lloyd Garrison to John Anderson Collins; the surgeon had the boldness to open the letter and read the contents. Garrison comments on the speeches of following people at the Sabbath convention: Amos Augustus Phelps, Nathaniel Colver, Charles T. Torrey, Samuel Osgood, Luther Lee, Silas Hawley, Joshua V. Himes, Philemon R. Russell, and Edward T. Taylor. William Henry Harrison was elected president of the United States; George Bradburn and John Rankin voted for him. Nathaniel P. Rogers is writing for both the National Anti-Slavery Standard and the Herald of Freedom. Oliver Johnson is still in New York. James Caleb Jackson is lecturing in western New York.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.230.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Bradburn, George 1806 1880
  4. Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
  5. Colver, Nathaniel 1794 1870
  6. Correspondence
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. Harrison, William Henry 1773 1841
  9. Hawley, Silas 1815 1883
  10. Himes, Joshua V. (Joshua Vaughan) 1805 1895
  11. History
  12. Jackson, James C. 1811 1895
  13. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  14. Lee, Luther 1800 1889
  15. Osgood, Samuel 1784 1862
  16. Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus) 1805 1847
  17. Rankin, John 1793 1886
  18. Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody 1794 1846
  19. Russell, Philemon R. (Philemon Robbins)
  20. Sabbath
  21. Slaver
  22. Taylor, Edward Thompson 1793 1871
  23. Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner) 1813 1846
  24. United States

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