Letter from William Sargent, [Falmouth, Kentucky], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1838 October 16]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from William Sargent, [Falmouth, Kentucky], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1838 October 16]
Description:
In this letter addressed to the "Editors of the Liberator" [William Lloyd Garrison], William Sargent has copied "an official advertisement put up at the Court house door of the County," a warrant for an escaped slave. Sargent says the notice is an example of the suffering that abolitionists are "bringing down upon the heads and bodies of one class of of [sic] the human family exemplified in the above scarified body of an aged woman." He points to the accusations against abolitionists in the notice and says, "Now cruelty & vengeance excited by the intermed[d]lers of the north is poured out upon the body of the slave ..."
Author:
Sargent, William
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[October 16, 1838]
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
Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Fugitive slaves--United States
Social reformers--United States
Sargent, William
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 33 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z111d37j
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
[Falmouth, Kentucky]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso the letter is addressed "To the Editors of the Liberator Philadelphia Pennsylvania." There is also a note indicating that, "This letter was opened by John Ferral [?] supposing it intended for the National Laborer the only 'Liberator' periodical of Phila[delphia]."
Above the letter Sargent has copied a notice titled, "Negro Woman," that announces a "warrant of a justice of the Country of Pendleton K[entuck]y to the jail thereof a negro woman, who calls herself Sarah, supposed age, 50 y[ea]rs." The notice identifies her physical features, including her height and a number of scars, and blames "the spirit of abolitionism infuse[d] by reading (as she can read) their publications" for the scars on her back. It warns her owner to "prove property according to law" and remove her from jail or she will be sold "at public auction under the orders of the County Court ..."
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5747901
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.7, p.64
Barcode:
39999086048749