"Your late purchase of an estate with a view of emancipating the slaves on it is a generous and noble proof of your humanity! Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country."

"Your late purchase of an estate with a view of emancipating the slaves on it is a generous and noble proof of your humanity! Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country."

Item Information

Title:
"Your late purchase of an estate with a view of emancipating the slaves on it is a generous and noble proof of your humanity! Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country."
Author in quotations or text abstracts:
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Addressee:
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Name on Item:
Washington to Lafayette
Date:
[1800?–1899?]
Format:
Ephemera
Genre:
Broadsides
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston
Slavery--United States--History
Boston (Mass.)--History
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 broadside ; 104 x 76 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/70796c731
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
[Boston?] : s.n.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift, family of William Lloyd Garrison, April 1, 1899.
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger.
Notes (object):
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shows water damage on the right side of the sheet.
Call #:
RARE BKS Cab.23.17.7 no.17 xxb
Barcode:
39999063764102