Letter from James Clarke White, Cin[cinnati],O[hio], to William Lloyd Garrison, Feb[ruary] 25 / [18]79

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Title:
Letter from James Clarke White, Cin[cinnati],O[hio], to William Lloyd Garrison, Feb[ruary] 25 / [18]79
Description:
James Clarke White, though "almost a stranger" to William Lloyd Garrison, writes Garrison that he has been for him a "prominent object of thought since 1830", when he heard Garrison lecture in Providence, Rhode Island. White informs Garrison that as the old guard of abolitionists pass one by one, he is increasingly attached to those whom remain. White recounts receiving letters from John Greenleaf Whittier and Maria L. Child, and informs Garrison that his practice of hanging Child's printed antislavery verses in the windows of his old storefront "came near exciting fearful mob violence". White details his years of laboring in the antislavery cause in Boston, Louisville, and Cincinnati, and asserts his having been "muffled & persecuted again & again", living through "fearful struggles" and witnessing "fearful sights". White reports having read of a memorial to Brother John Thompson.
Author:
White, James C. (James Clarke), 1833-1916
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[February 25, 1879]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Public opinion--United States--History--19th century
African American abolitionists--History--19th century
Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Public opinion
African American abolitionists
Fugitive slaves--United States
White, James C. (James Clarke), 1833-1916
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Thompson, John, 1812-1860
Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 26 x 20.6 cm.
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Place of origin:
Cin[cinnati]O[hio]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "31" in pencil beneath White's salutation to Garrison.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4713947
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.40, p.80B
Barcode:
39999066760925