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Letter from Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Boston, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Jan[uary] 13th 1875

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Josephine Ruffin writes William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for his letter published in the paper, likening it to a "ray of light" cutting through the gloom of a week of "denunciation and defamation of the friends of the friendless".
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Women Abolitionists
  3. African Americans
  4. Antislavery Movements
  5. Boston
  6. Correspondence
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. History
  9. Massachusetts
  10. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  11. Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre 1842 1924
  12. Slaver
  13. Smith, Gerrit 1797 1874
  14. Suffragists
  15. Sumner, Charles 1811 1874
  16. United States
  17. Women
  18. Women Abolitionists

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