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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerManuscript annotated on recto, with "71" in pencil beneath Ruffin's salutation to GarrisonJosephine St. Pierre Ruffin writes William Lloyd Garrison her desire to visit him since reading his appeal for aid on behalf of the "Southern Refugees". Ruffin reports that she only knows of one of the signers of the "St. Louis Appeal", but declares that his "intemperate habits" causes her to distrust the "whole committee", and informs Garrison that his estimation of the character of the man in question is "entirely wrong". Ruffin states her fears that an occasion of "dishonesty of some of the agents" such as took place in the "Freedmen's Aid Society"
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Women Abolitionists
  3. African American Women Social Reformers
  4. African Americans
  5. Antislavery Movements
  6. Freedmen
  7. Freedmen's Aid Society
  8. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  9. Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre, 1842 1924
  10. Slaver
  11. Social Reformers
  12. Women

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