Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven, [Connecticut], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1831 July 26

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Title:
Letter from Simeon Smith Jocelyn, New Haven, [Connecticut], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1831 July 26
Description:
In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Simeon S. Jocelyn asks Garrison to send him copies of his "Address to the People of Color" for him to sell in New Haven, asking, "Why cannot thousands of them be sold if proper pains are taken to dispose of them in our principal cities[?]" He then discusses a print of a slave-trading ship that was included in the latest issue of the Liberator (July 23, 1831, Vol. I, no. 30) saying that the picture, "with the description of the slave trade &c will do much good." Jocelyn adds that Arthur Tappan has provided money to enable other editors to publish the print and asks Garrison for facts about the "horrors of the domestic slave trade." He also mentions a speech by [Robert Jefferson] Breckenridge "before the Kentucky Colonization Society" and applauds "his fearless manner of attacking slavery in a slave state." Jocelyn then asks Garrison what [Ralph] Gurley will make of the speech and what "Dr. Beecher say[s] to you for putting him in so awkward a posture."
Author:
Jocelyn, Simeon Smith, 1799-1879
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
July 26, 1831
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--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Publishers and publishing
Slave trade--United States--History
Social reformers--United States
Jocelyn, Simeon Smith, 1799-1879
Tappan, Arthur, 1786-1865
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
New Haven, [Connecticut]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5142696
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.1, p.27
Barcode:
39999085506077