Letter from George Fitzhugh, Virginia, to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]56 Dec[ember] 10th

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Title:
Letter from George Fitzhugh, Virginia, to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]56 Dec[ember] 10th
Description:
George Fitzhugh writes to William Lloyd Garrison thanking him for publishing his last letter in the Liberator [appearing in the Liberator of November 28, under the pseudonym '"A Southerner"] and telling him that he has "acknowledged your liberality in a book that will soon appear from the press." He sends Garrison another article to publish in the Liberator and says, "the theory is from S[tephen] P[earl] Andrews' 'Science of Society,' the ablest philsophical work and best defense of slavery ever written in America." He complains that Andrews has stopped corresponding with him and tells Garrison, "I am a little miffed, or I would give him credit for it." Fitzhugh declares that he does not "consider our form of society perfect" but he believes that African-Americans "domestic affection would come into full play to correct those evils, which difference of race and that diabolical theory of the Types of Manknd, seem only to aggravate."
Author:
Fitzhugh, George, 1806-1881
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[December 10, 1856]
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
Slavery--Justification
Social reformers--United States
Fitzhugh, George, 1806-1881
Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 1812-1886
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 26 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z1107957
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Place of origin:
Virginia
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the letter is addressed "For Mr. Garrison."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5860732
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.26, p.80
Barcode:
39999085840161