Letter from Robert Edmond, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Oct. 13, 1848

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Title:
Letter from Robert Edmond, Philadelphia, [Pa.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Oct. 13, 1848
Description:
Robert Edmond left his home, fleeing the cruel treatment of the slaveholder to seek shelter among strangers. He has been received "in a very cold manner by the pretender friends of freedom." Edmond writes: "The persecution that I received in the south has not affected me, nor hurt my feelings so much, as the heartless reception I have received and truly I was very sick after the manner in which I had been treated by the slaveholder, but my feeling[s] have been wounded deeper since I came here." Edmond has been lecturing in churches. He has tasted freedom and refuses to go back and admit defeat. Edmond wonders if he should tell the slaveholders that the "slave in the south is better off than the Negro in the north, and that the abolitionists are all humbugs and a parcel of imposters?"
Author:
Edmond, Robert
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
October 13, 1848
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
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Edmond, Robert
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dv143g54h
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Philadelphia, [Pa.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
The delivery address is: Mr. Wm Lloyd Garrison, Editor of the Liberator, Boston, Mass.
Identifier:
4529337
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.18, p.37
Barcode:
39999063858011