Letter from James Forten, Philad[elphi]a, [Pennsylvania], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1831 August 9th

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Title:
Letter from James Forten, Philad[elphi]a, [Pennsylvania], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1831 August 9th
Description:
James Forten writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him the latest annual report from the [American] Colonization Society and discussing the Independence Day speech of John Quincy Adams. Forten says that he agrees with Adams in declaring "it must be arbitrary force and not right to make a slave," adding that the speech is "one of the best I have read, and is worthy of so great a scholar and so distinguised a statesman." He then praises the Liberator for "it has silenced the Colonization Society," and says he is "much mortified by the delay of the Publishing Committee" for not immediately publishing its account of the General Convention of Colored Delegates that recently met in Philadelphia.
Author:
Forten, James, 1766-1842
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
August 9, 1831
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
African American abolitionists--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
African American abolitionists
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
American Colonization Society
Forten, James, 1766-1842
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Convention of the People of Color, First Annual (1831 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Philad[elphi]a, [Pennsylvania]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
A portion of this letter is printed in the Liberator of September 24, 1831 (Vol. I, no. 39) under the heading "Mr. Adams's Oration."
Identifier:
5142820
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.1, p.29
Barcode:
39999085506101