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Letter from Parker Pillsbury, Harwich, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Aug[ust] 27 [1848]
1848-08-27
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Holograph, signed.
- Title:
- Letter from Parker Pillsbury, Harwich, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Aug[ust] 27 [1848]
- Creator:
- Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
- Date Created:
- 1848-08-27
- Description:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "See Act 2 A.S. Apostle, 1353" in pencil along top-left of page, "31" in pencil to the left of Pillsbury's salutation to Garrison, "From Parker Pillsbury" in black ink along center-top margin of page, "1848" in black ink to the right of letterhead date, and "Garrison MSS." stamped in blue ink beneath letterhead date.
This date is inferred.
Parker Pillsbury writes William Lloyd Garrison stating that Harwich has "been the scene of one of the most violent mobs" that the Commonwealth has ever witnessed. Pillsbury states that himself, Stephen S. Foster, and William Wells Brown, a fugitive slave, were attacked in a riot "led on by members of the Orthodox & Baptist Churches" who disapproved of their address on the religious nature of the United States relative to slavery.
Item details
- Partner:
- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Boston Public Library
- Subjects:
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--Violence against--United States--History--19th century
African American abolitionists--History--19th century
Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Meetings
Abolitionists--United States
Violence
African American abolitionists
Fugitive slaves--United States
Slavery and the church--United States
Pillsbury, Parker 1809-1898
Brown, William Wells 1814?-1884
Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809-1881 - Type:
- text
- Format:
- CorrespondenceManuscripts
- Rights:
- No known restrictions on use.
No known copyright restrictions.