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1852 July 9 . Lewis Tappan ALS to D[wight] Baldwin; South Woodstock, Connecticut.

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Box 4
Abstract:
Acknowledges receipt of letters and donations from foreign missionaries to the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. "...it is cheering to know that converted heathen, at such a distance, under the faithful preaching of sypmathising Christian countrymen, feel for the slave, for the free people of this country, and for the Redeemers." Comments on the work of missionaries and their converts in furthering the anti-slavery cause and Christian principles generally. Materials recently sent to Baldwin, other missionaries, and Chief Justice [William Little] Lee (1821-1857), will give them a sense of the cause's current status. Committee accepts the $100 and will use it to distribute a tract, noting the failure of the American Tract Society to publish anti-slavery materials. Grateful for monthly prayer concerts "to pray for the downfall[l] of slavery." Will publish portions of Baldwin's letter in the Independent, noting the newspaper's strong anti-slavery stance and the number of ministers who subscribe to it. Mentions Harriet Beecher Stowe and the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. "...the sale has been unprecedented, certainly in this country . . . Facts are woven into a fiction with a power superior to Dickens' . . . It is a good indication that such a work is read with so much avidity. The anti Slavery discussions prepared the way."
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Collection

African American and African Diaspora collection, 1729-1970 (majority within 1781-1865)
Total components 346
Items available online Online 252
Last indexed 2024-08-05