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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, New York, to Helen Eliza Garrison, May 16 [i.e. 15], 1840

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Holograph, signed with initials.William Lloyd Garrison reports on an anti-slavery meeting in New York. Abby Kelley (Foster) was appointed to a business committee. The minority of the group seceded to form the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Arthur Tappan declined re-election and Lindley Coates was chosen in his stead. Only James S. Gibbons was re-elected to the Executive Committee. Resolutions were adopted unanimously. A mob attacked Roswell Goss's Graham House. Garrison writes: "As Rogers and myself have been stopping with our colored friend Van Ranssalaer [sic], we have seen nothing of the mobocrats. It has not amounted to any thing like a popular tumult." Garrison will sail on the ship Columbus bound for Liverpool with Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor, William Adams, Charles Lenox Remond, and Nathaniel P. Rogers.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.184.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Adams, William 1790 1868
  3. American And Foreign Anti Slavery Society
  4. Antislavery Movements
  5. Coates, Lindley 1794 1856
  6. Correspondence
  7. Foster, Abby Kelley 1811 1887
  8. Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
  9. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  10. Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan) 1810 1892
  11. Grosvenor, Cyrus Pitt 1792 1879
  12. History
  13. Remond, Charles Lenox 1810 1873
  14. Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody 1794 1846
  15. Slaver
  16. Tappan, Arthur 1786 1865
  17. United States
  18. Van Rensalaer, Thomas

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