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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On the last page, under the autograph, the letter is addressed to "W.L. Garrison America."Anne Knight writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for his last letter and sharing her "prediction that your march to emancipation will not be a very lengthy one." She comments that the British planters embraced "emancipation from motives of self-interest, they only wanted to see if & how much more they could plunder from an outraged people in the form of compensation," hoping that after "African liberty may be obtained ... then - the Hill Coolies!" Knight blames "the villainous [William Ewart] Gladstone" for the plight of the Hill Coolies and shares her belief that while the "slave trade [was] nominally suppressed but really [it] doubled with added horrors of the middle passage ..." She also states she "hope[s] Texas will not be added to the slaveries of your republican aristocracy," saying she "long[s] to see your glorious country freed from its vile chains & flourishing over its head a legitimate star-spangled banner." Knight closes her letter asking for Garrison to send her his portrait "by first opportunity."

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