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Gerrit Smith autograph letter signed to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Peterboro N.Y., 7 May 1858

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Title supplied by cataloger.Date from item or from supporting materials.Gerrit SmithDonated to the Boston Public Library by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1904.Mentions the death of his brother. Is as much disturbed by the possibility of [Hugh] Forbes's treachery. Thinks [John] Brown must go no further. Printed in part in F.B. Sanborn, Recollections of Seventy Years, p.155; Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, p.159.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Brown, John 1800 1859
  4. Forbes, Hugh Active Approximately 1848 Approximately 1857
  5. Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
  6. History
  7. John Brown's Raid, 1859
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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