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Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, 24 April, 1865

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Letter addressed from Anti-Slavery Office.Johnson, responding to Garrison's desire that their anniversary meeting should include both an African-American speaker as well as a female speaker, suggests that they engage Frances Harper Watkins. Johnson states his belief that those in the American Anti-Slavery Society in favor of the dissolution fo the society should "not take it for granted that we are to be voted down", and urges Garrison to actively participate in the debate in favor of dissolving the society.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Abolitionists
  3. African American Women Abolitionists
  4. African Americans
  5. American Anti Slavery Society
  6. Antislavery Movements
  7. Congresses
  8. Congresses And Conventions
  9. Correspondence
  10. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  11. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins 1825 1911
  12. History
  13. Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
  14. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  15. Quincy, Edmund 1808 1877
  16. Slaver
  17. United States
  18. Women
  19. Women Abolitionists

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