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Fragment of a letter to unknown recipient] [manuscript

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HolographIn the second paragraph, on the first page, Pillsbury writes, "here in Liverpool."This fragment is marked page "3" at the topThis letter was possibly written to Samuel May, Jr., with whom Pillsbury corresponded frequently during his agency in Europe on behalf of the American Anti-Slavery SocietyTitle supplied by catalogerThis fragment is in the hand of Parker Pillsbury. It gives a detailed account of the escape of a slave from New Orleans to Liverpool on board the ship, "Asterion." Pillsbury discusses the reaction of Frederick Douglass and his friends to the last letter of John Bishop Estlin
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Pillsbury, Parker, 1809 1898
  4. Slaver

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