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[Letter to] My Dear Brother Phelps [manuscript]

by: Barbour, I. Richmond (Isaac Richmond), 1794-1869; Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient

Publication date: 1837

Topics: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, Barbour, I. Richmond (Isaac Richmond), 1794-1869, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: Charlton

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Title devised by cataloger

On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Boston, Mass." It was postmarked in Amherst, Mass. on Nov. 22

The manuscript is stamped, "PHELPS, MSS."

In reply to Amos A. Phelpśs inquiry, Isaac R. Barbour describes the prevalence of the antislavery sentiment among ministers in his area as well as the small size of antislavery society membership among them. He goes on criticizing William Lloyd Garrison for alienating certain people from the cause