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Letter from John Robert Graham Pitkin, Wash[ingto]n, [D.C.], to William Lloyd Garrison, M[ar]ch 14 [18]77

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript addressed to "Wm Lloyd Garrison. Esq. Boston. Mass."John Robert Graham Pitkin forwards to William Lloyd Garrison "three briefs in the La. case", one of which is his own work, which he desires that Garrison should know of, stating that the "peril" facing freedmen in Louisiana is "most grave". Pitkin urges Garrison to "let [Garrison's] voice be heard" on behalf of the freedmen, stating that "[o]ne hundred thousand black voters await words of courage" from such figures as Garrison.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African Americans
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Correspondence
  6. Equality Before The Law
  7. Freedmen
  8. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  9. History
  10. Pitkin, John R. G. (John Robert Graham) 1841 1901
  11. Race Relations
  12. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  13. Slaver
  14. Social Reformers
  15. Southern States
  16. Suffrage
  17. United States
  18. Violence
  19. Violence Against
  20. Woman's Journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)

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