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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.James Trask Woodbury writes to Amos A. Phelps about an anti-slavery meeting held at Concord and his regret that he could not stay later to meet Phelps. He explains that " 'we the people' of the North are beginning to find out what we have to do with Slavery, & what is far better, faithfully...to do it." He discusses the slave trade and writes, "If you please, the informed slave trade, I could with my personal light no more do it, than I could be a slaveholder or slave dealer in D.C., or own one of those slave ships, that play between Alexandria & New Orleans." He requests that a copy of this letter be given to the "Liberator."

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