Letter from I. F. Hoyt, Chicago, Ill, to William Lloyd Garrison, Nov. 6, 1872
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Hoyt requests that Garrison supply him with information pertaining to the percentage of prisoners in Massachusetts who are African-American. Hoyt explains that he desires this statistical information due to his belief that a claim stating 1/8th of all Massachusetts' prisoners to be African-American to be a false statement, and one which he wishes to dispel.