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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing typeset letterhead (on recto) reading "Essex Hall, Walthamstow." in blue ink.Manuscript dated "18 / 6mo 1870".Joseph Cooper informs William Lloyd Garrison that the battle to "promote the great work of Emancipation in Spain and Brazil" continues apace with their full energies and efforts. Cooper notes that an encouraging sign from Brazil is the great increase in the instances of "private emancipations", as well as the formation of a Ladies Society in Rio de Janeiro. Cooper adds that the ministers in Brazil are regrettably conservative, that is to say, pro-slavery. Cooper asserts that the people of Spain are anti-slavery, but relates that the plan introduced by the Colonial minister is "indefinitely worse" than that forwarded by delegates of "the Cuban slave-owners in 1866", and proclaims that even the "anti-negro" Times has described it as a means to secure a "long lease" for slavery rather than abolition. Cooper relates his efforts to secure joint condemnation of slavery in the Spanish Empire from the United States, England, and France.

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