Letter from Richard Hildreth, Demerara, [Guyana, South America], to Caroline Weston, Nov. 26, 1841

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Title:
Letter from Richard Hildreth, Demerara, [Guyana, South America], to Caroline Weston, Nov. 26, 1841
Author:
Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865
Addressee:
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Date:
November 26, 1841
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Guyana--Social conditions
Weston, Caroline, 1808-1882
Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865
Collins, John A. (John Anderson), 1810-1879
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20vn09k
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Place of origin:
Demerara, [Guyana, South America]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Before leaving Boston, Richard Hildreth deposited with John A. Collins the stereotype plates of his books, "Archie Moore" and "Despotism in America," to be printed and sold by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Collins sold only seventy copies in one year. Richard Hildreth, however, has 150 copies of "Archie Moore," previously printed, which he would like to have distributed among the slaveholding members of Congress. The climate of Demerara suits Hildreth, although he been ill several weeks. Hildreth has sent to Mr. Wheeler a part of his work, "Rudiments of the Inductive Science of Man," suggesting that it be handed to Caroline Weston. Hildreth discusses his theory of progress and reaction. He has sent Caroline Weston a report on the laboring population of this colony containing "decisive proof that the black population, within a very moderate period, will become the lords of the soil here." He explains the difference of status between the blacks and the mulattos, and the practice of intermarriage between the mulattos and the whites.
Identifier:
3134184
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.15, p.97
Barcode:
39999066778315
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