Letter from James F. Otis, Portland, [Maine], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1835 April 10

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Title:
Letter from James F. Otis, Portland, [Maine], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1835 April 10
Description:
James Frederick Otis writes to William Lloyd Garrison asking for "the best arguments against the payment, remunerative compensation of slaveholders, in care of abolition. Where is what you have written & said on the question?" He says the position of the American Anti-Slavery Society in their Declaration of Sentiments against compensating slaveholders caused a debate at a meeting of the local Young Men's Anti-Slavery Society and puts them against General James Appleton who argued that compensation was fair since all Americans share "equal responsibility for the sin of slavery in this land with the actual slaveholders." Otis says he believes that General Appleton is wrong and "the authorities on this point" will help him refute Appleton's arguments. He also suggests that Garrison include in the Liberator an anecdote found in the Memoirs of Hannah More, Volume I, page 147, "relative to the heroism of a colored servant."
Author:
Otis, James F., -1867
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
April 10, 1835
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
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States
Social reformers--United States
Otis, James F., -1867
Appleton, James, 1785-1862
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Portland, [Maine]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5713877
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.5, p.24
Barcode:
39999086046917