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

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison will stay at the family home until George William Benson comes. Garrison mentions rumors concerning the abolitionists Arthur Tappan, Lewis Tappan, and George Thompson. Samuel Joseph May wrote about a meeting in Haverhill which was dispersed by a shower of brickbats. George Thompson had a narrow escape from a mob in Concord. John G. Whittier was pelted with mud and stones. Garrison expects that some of the abolitionists will be assassinated. Garrison says: "Angelina E. Grimke, sister of the lamented Grimke, has sent me a soul-thrilling epistle, in which, with a spirit worthy of the best days of martyrdom, she says---'A hope gleams across my mind, that our blood will be spilt, instead of the slaveholders'; our lives will be taken, and theirs spared.' Is not this Christ-like?"Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.212.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, George William 1808 1879
  4. Correspondence
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  6. History
  7. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  8. Slaver
  9. Tappan, Arthur 1786 1865
  10. Tappan, Lewis 1788 1873
  11. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  12. United States
  13. Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807 1892

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