1862
George Thompson writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him "several copies of the Star and this hasty note" before beginning a meeting in the town of Banbury, England. Thompson then describes the meetings he has attended in the past week since his last letter, all "held for promoting British sympathy with the American Abolition movement." He details how one meeting was presided over by "the Revd. Newman Hall ... a man who has uttered many noble words for freedom" and how former slave William A. Jackson was "received ... with cheer upon cheer and 'one cheer more.'" Thompson also praises Washington Wilks who spoke at another meeting and who he considers to be "one of the most gifted platform speakers as well as a most able writer in one of our daily papers."
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