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Holograph, signed with initialsWilliam Lloyd Garrison recalls the origins of Oberlin College. John Keep and William Dawes sought support for it in England in 1840. Oberlin was active in the relief of fugitives fleeing from the South. Garrison gives an account of the exercises for the graduating class in theology at Oberlin. Professor Finney advised hearty participation in all reforms. At the meeting yesterday, the principal topic of discussion was the "come-outerism" from the church and state. President Mahan favors the U.S. Constitution as an anti-slavery instrument. Frederick Douglass and William L. Garrison were entertained by Hamilton Hill, an English gentleman. They dined with Professor Hudson and saw Professor Morgan. The met Lucy Stone, who just graduated and is now preparing to go forth as a lecturerOn page four of this manuscript, William Lloyd Garrison continues writing this letter in Salem, [Ohio], on Sept. 5, 1847. In Salem, they stayed with Benjamin S. Jones. Garrison reports on the meetings in different towns. Garrison comments: "The tide of anti-slavery is rising daily. Every thing looks encouraging." James and Lucretia Mott are here; Lucretia spoke twiceMerrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Dawes, William, 1799 1881
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895
- Finney, Charles Grandison, 1792 1875
- Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811 1876
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
- Hill, Hamilton, D. 1870
- Hudson, Timothy B., 1814 1858
- Jones, Benjamin Smith, 1812 1862
- Keep, John, 1781 1870
- Mahan, Asa, 1799 1889
- Morgan, John, 1802 Or 3 1884
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793 1880
- Oberlin College
- Slaver
- Stone, Lucy, 1818 1893