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Letter from Elizabeth Pease Nichol, Huntly Lodge, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1st Sept. [1864]

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Holograph, signed.Pease Nichol writes to Garrison to criticize those within the Anti-Slavery movement who, in support of the Copperhead faction, have withdrawn their support of "The Liberator" due to Garrison's support of Abraham Lincoln's reelection. Pease Nichol labels these dissenters as having abandoned the principle of "freedom of thought & speech" at the heart of the Anti-Slavery movement.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Copperhead Movement
  4. Correspondence
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  6. History
  7. Lincoln, Abraham 1809 1865
  8. Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897
  9. Slaver
  10. United States

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