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- GLC#
- GLC08958
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 June 1862
- Author/Creator
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
- Title
- to Aaron M. Powell
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Discusses an abolitionist meeting he attended, where a memorial was drafted calling on President Lincoln to immediately abolish slavery. Now in New York, an "immense, dirty, bustling, turbulent city." Says of Theodore Tilton, one of his companions at the meeting "should his life be spared, he is destined to be 'a burning and a shining light' in the cause of humanity and progress."
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