Letter from Jonathan Ward, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1838 September 11th

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Jonathan Ward, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1838 September 11th
Description:
Jonathan Ward writes Amos A. Phelps suggesting that agents of the society who are able to preach be permitted to do so in places where preaching is needed. He describes controversy in some of the churches in Plymouth. He discusses his anti-slavery sentiments and explains events occurring within the society: "The Society at the same meeting appointed a committee to propose a declaration which shall announce the judgment of the A.A.S.S. convening the common error that our enterprise is of a political and not a religious character. And yet they appointed on this committee Garrison who is opposing all the institutions of religion and thus proclaimed to the country and to the world that his religion is a good religion and so goes his influence...to pull down the institutions of the Christian..."
Author:
Ward, Jonathan, 1769-1860
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
September 11, 1838
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Congresses--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Congresses and conventions
Slavery and the church--United States
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States
Societies
American Anti-Slavery Society
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Ward, Jonathan, 1769-1860
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Below the first line, there is the number "75" written in pencil. Letter stamped "Phelps, MSS."
Identifier:
5068172
Call #:
MS A.21 v.8, p.79
Barcode:
39999085423695