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[Letter to] Mr. W. Lloyd Garrison, My Dear Friend [manuscript]

by: Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814-1837; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient

Publication date: 1833

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814-1837, Brown, Nicholas, 1769-1841, Cady, Josiah, 1778-1853, Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890, Judson, Andrew T. (Andrew Thompson), 1784-1853, May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871, African Americans, African Americans, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Providence, R.I.

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Oversize manuscript

Henry Egbert Benson mentions the formation of the Providence Anti-Slavery Society with Josiah Cady as the president. Samuel Joseph May is helping them and defending Prudence Crandall. Henry Egbert Benson gives an account of Prudence Crandall's trial and persecution. The American Colonization Society has sanctioned Prudence Crandall's persecution. Nicholas Brown is president of the Colonization Society. The Colonization Society has appointed Andrew T. Judson as its agent. Another school for black children was founded by Mrs. Arthur Tappan