Letter from Jonathan Owen, Cambridge, to William Lloyd Garrison, M[ar]ch 2 [18]78

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Jonathan Owen, Cambridge, to William Lloyd Garrison, M[ar]ch 2 [18]78
Description:
Jonathan Owen writes William Lloyd Garrison requesting clarification on the source of an anecdote found in the manuscript of Charles Sumner's lecture on "Caste", which relates a slave who, being compelled to serve as an executioner in Louisiana, prefered to sever his own right hand than to kill a "brother slave".
Author:
Owen, Jonathan
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[March 2, 1878]
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--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Owen, Jonathan
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (1 p.) ; 10.5 x 15 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900q799z
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
Cambridge
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript annotated on recto, with "32" in pencil above Owen's salutation to Garrison.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4713971
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.40, p.17B
Barcode:
39999066760875