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 ..."
- Készítette Sargent, William, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
- Datálva [October 16, 1838]
- Őrzi Boston Public Library
- Része ennek Anti-Slavery Collection
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Subject
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)