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Letter from James Trask Woodbury, Acton, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1838 Dec[ember] 15
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."
- Por Woodbury, James Trask, 1803-1861, Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
- Fechado en ["December 15, 1838"]
- Conservado por Boston Public Library
- Parte de Anti-Slavery Collection
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Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Meetings
Publishers and publishing
Slavery and the church--United States
Slave trade--United States--History
Slavery
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Woodbury, James Trask, 1803-1861
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
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