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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Brooklyn, [Conn.], to Henry Egbert Benson, Sept. 12, 1835

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Holograph, signed with initials.George Thompson had a narrow escape in Concord. William Lloyd Garrison advises that for the time being "we had better not attempt to lecture." Garrison thinks that "our first public meeting in Boston ought to be with reference, exclusively, to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.211.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, Henry Egbert 1814 1837
  4. Correspondence
  5. Emancipation
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. Slaver
  9. Slaves
  10. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  11. United States
  12. Washington (D.C.)

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