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Letter from James Haughton, Dublin, [Ireland], to George Thompson, 1846 December 13

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains purple postmarked stamp "Garrison Mss."James Haughton writes to George Thompson thanking him for sending him newspaper publications and discusses a few of them. He discusses an incident in the Reporter "charging you with being the paid agent of a slaveholder." He writes that it didn't occur to him that "the native princes of India were slaveholders & yet I presume such is the fact. Now I do not think that is a good reason why injustice should be done them, but it does seem to me a good reason why their advocated [are] in these countries."
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. British
  4. Correspondence
  5. England
  6. Great Britain
  7. Haughton, James 1795 1873
  8. History
  9. India
  10. Newspapers
  11. Slaver
  12. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  13. United States

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