Description
A donation letter from [Shearman] to Lewis Tappan on behalf of himself and another man "for the expenses of [the Amistad Africans'] education in Farmington. He asks whether "the plan of exhibiting them in our larger towns and cities will not interfere with those habits of patient application to labour and study."
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1841 05 25
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Amistad Research CenterKeywords
- America
- Amistad (Schooner)
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- History
- Slave Insurrections
- Slave Trade
- Slaver
- United States
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