Letter from Ebenezer Bowman, Boston, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1879 Ap[ri]l 26th

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Title:
Letter from Ebenezer Bowman, Boston, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1879 Ap[ri]l 26th
Description:
Ebenezer Bowman writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him $2 "for the 'Southern Exodus'" and sharing his regret that he is not "able to make the amount many hundred times larger." Bowman says he experienced "severe marching over the plantations of Louisiana during the war and have suffered from chronic madness since its close." He comments on the "short sighted[ness]" of his leaders who trusted the freedom of former slaves to the "enemies of equal rights," saying they are now trying to secure "by tyranny, legislation, and fear what they had failed to secure by treason and force." Bowman sees in the exodus the hand of "providence" leading "these oppressed people to a land of practical freedom ... where they can vote without fear from the shot-gun".
Author:
Bowman, Ebenezer, 1831-1897
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
April 26, 1879
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Exodus of 1879
Exodusters
Race relations--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Migration, Internal--United States
Race relations
Social reformers--United States
Bowman, Ebenezer, 1831-1897
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 v. (3 p.) ; 23 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2z10z0041
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
Boston, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5110812
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.40, p.109B
Barcode:
39999085429684