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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Freedom's Cottage, Roxbury, [Mass.], to George William Benson, August 11, 1834

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison poetically describes the woods and birds around his cottage. His marriage is on September 4. Garrison writes: "You will have seen by the Liberator, that a grand attack by all the combined forces of colonization and slavery has lately been made upon Boston, in relation to the Maryland scheme of expatriation. They have met with a Waterloo defeat, and yet they fought pugnis et calcibus---with tooth and nails, and even horns." John Breckenridge and Robert J. Breckenridge complained of the treatment they received in Providence because meetinghouses were closed to them.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.169.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, George William 1808 1879
  4. Breckinridge, John 1797 1841
  5. Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) 1800 1871
  6. Correspondence
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. History
  9. Slaver
  10. United States

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