Letter from James Trask Woodbury, Acton, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1838 Dec[ember] 15

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Title:
Letter from James Trask Woodbury, Acton, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1838 Dec[ember] 15
Description:
James Trask Woodbury writes to Amos A. Phelps about an anti-slavery meeting held at Concord and his regret that he could not stay later to meet Phelps. He explains that " 'we the people' of the North are beginning to find out what we have to do with Slavery, & what is far better, faithfully...to do it." He discusses the slave trade and writes, "If you please, the informed slave trade, I could with my personal light no more do it, than I could be a slaveholder or slave dealer in D.C., or own one of those slave ships, that play between Alexandria & New Orleans." He requests that a copy of this letter be given to the "Liberator."
Author:
Woodbury, James Trask, 1803-1861
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
December 15, 1838
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Meetings
Publishers and publishing
Slavery and the church--United States
Slave trade--United States--History
Slavery
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Woodbury, James Trask, 1803-1861
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (1 p.) ; 25 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xv23j
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Acton, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5100216
Call #:
MS A.21 v.8, p.91
Barcode:
39999085427217