Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1834 [May] 17th

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Title:
Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1834 [May] 17th
Description:
James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then praises the American Anti-Slavery Society's Declaration of Sentiments, saying "the friends of Negro emancipation were greatly rejoiced to see your manly Declarlation against slavery," before discussing the challenges to emancipation in the United States. Cropper then proposes changing state to make it easier to free slaves and suggests that showing slaveholders the advantages of free labor will encourage them to free their slaves. He tells Garrison that his view is "one mode at least to which your aims should be subjected". He also says he is "about to try an experiment which if it succeeds would be of vast importance to the Coloured people in your Country, whether children or grown up" and sends Garrison a copy of his plan hoping "some individual or Society in America will take it up". After his autograph, Cropper adds a note about Charles Stuart's visit to the United States, stating that he is "a little afraid of our stepping out of our proper place in paying Agents to travel in the United States, but I am satisfied there is a degree of apathy from which it is needfull the people in your Country should by some means be arouzed [sic]."
Author:
Cropper, James, 1773-1840
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[May 17, 1834]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--England--19th century--Correspondence
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--United States
Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States
Social reformers--United States
Cropper, James, 1773-1840
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Places:
United Kingdom
England
Extent:
2 leaves (6 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Liverpool, [England]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso of the second leaf, the letter is addressed to "William Lloyd Garrison Boston" and a red seal is present along the spine edge.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5711276
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.4, p.39-40
Barcode:
39999086046651