Letter from Jonathan Owen, Cambridge, to William Lloyd Garrison, M[ar]ch 2 [18]78
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Jonathan Owen writes William Lloyd Garrison requesting clarification on the source of an anecdote found in the manuscript of Charles Sumner's lecture on "Caste", which relates a slave who, being compelled to serve as an executioner in Louisiana, prefered to sever his own right hand than to kill a "brother slave".