Letter from Abner Sanger, Danvers, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1840 March 4

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Title:
Letter from Abner Sanger, Danvers, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1840 March 4
Description:
In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Abner Sanger offers Garrison this letter publish if he believes "it will have an influence to better the cause of Anti-Slavery" and promising that "nothing is stated different from the exact truth though perhaps not in the precise language used." He then repeats a statment made by Daniel Wise about "the evil tendencies of the nonresistance doctrines," claiming that Garrison had once approved of the writings of "a man from from Putney, Vermont" [John Humphrey Noyes] and now "the same person ... had written something in a newspaper carrying out the non-resistance doctrines to the alarming consequences intimated by him." This included, "a promiscuous cohabitation of the sexes, which he stated as near he as could recollect, thus: that one man had no more exclusive rioghts to one woman, than, when a number sat together at their dinner, consisting of different dishes, one man had an exclusive right to the whole of one dish." Sanger questions if Garrison approves of these views and invites him for a visit to explain.
Author:
Sanger, Abner
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
March 4, 1840
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--United States--History--19th century
Christianity--United States--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity--United States
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Nonviolence
Social reformers--United States
Sanger, Abner
Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
Wise, Daniel, 1813-1898
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Danvers, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the letter is addressed to "Wm. Lloyd Garrison 25 Cornhill Boston."
Identifier:
5828863
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.9, p.15
Barcode:
39999085838967