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Letter from James Miller M'Kim, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Sept[ember] 12th [1865]

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript addressed from "69 Stapan St New York".James Miller M'Kim announces to William Lloyd Garrison the formation of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission, formed after "much correspondence & repeated conferences" between the freedmen's aid associations of Boston, Philadelphia, and others, and recounts some of its internal operations. M'Kim confides to Garrison that he is weary of "labor at organization", and asserts that his true mission is to "influence minds".
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. American Freedmen's Aid Commission
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Correspondence
  5. Freedmen
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. History
  8. M'kim, J. Miller (James Miller) 1810 1874
  9. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  10. Slaver
  11. Social Reformers
  12. United States

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