Letter from Elizur Wright, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1834 March 3

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Title:
Letter from Elizur Wright, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1834 March 3
Description:
Elizur Wright Jr. writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding an outrage enacted on a colored family. He writes, "the trial of a colored family who had been handed out of their beds as slaves the night before. I never had occasion to feel more indignation at the mocking of justice by which colored men are seized and turned over to hopeless bondage. The particulars of the case & the results, you will...see in the papers." He explains that the committee will probably "direct your labors principally to New England." He writes of the difficulty in obtaining agents for the society as well as the conditions of the southern states with regard to slavery. He writes, "We receive also from the South a plenty of cursed and some pamphlets defending Slavery from Scripture--one especially is ominous, being 'got up' in Charleston since the National Convention."
Author:
Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
March 3, 1834
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--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Meetings
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century
Societies
Slave trade--United States--History
Slavery and the church--United States
Slavery--Justification
American Anti-Slavery Society. Executive Committee
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
Places:
Southern United States (area)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xv538
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5101140
Call #:
MS A.21 v.4, p.20
Barcode:
39999085427290