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Letter from J.H. Rutherford, Newcastle on Tyne, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1867 July 4th

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Rutherford, J. H

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Above the salutation, the number "130" is written in pencil.J.H. Rutherford writes to William Lloyd Garrison inviting him to give "an address to us in the New Town Hall." Rutherford states, "This I am sure will be pleasant to you, for nowhere are there warmer friends of freedom ..." He also says that Garrison's presence "will do us good, for though slavery is dead, the spirit that gave it birth lives in too many of our hearts."
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. England
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  6. Great Britain
  7. History
  8. Rutherford, J. H
  9. Slaver
  10. Social Reformers
  11. United States

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