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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. There is the number "76" written in pencil.Luther Wiswall writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding a discussion between Phelps and others in the Boston Recorder concerning slavery. He writes about the distinction between servitude and slavery, servant and slave. He writes, "What if the abolitionists do prove that among the Jews and early Cs servitude was allowed only in its milder forms, freed from its abuses, still it was a mild form of Slavery very much perhaps like that among the Indian or like that of God southern Slaveholders." He also includes a second letter, dated January 10, 1846, in which he encloses $5.

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