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[Quotation from a letter to Benjamin Lundy] [manuscript]

by: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839, recipient

Publication date: 1831

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: [Boston, Mass.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

In the hand of another person. Whereabouts of original manuscript unknown

William Lloyd Garrison wrote to Benjamin Lundy: "We shall fare on bread and water a long time before we strike our flag. Whether we sink or swim in this new enterprise, we shall remain the unyielding advocates of the poor slave." This quotation is from a letter by William Lloyd Garrison to Benjamin Lundy, January 1831. The complete text of this letter was published in Genius of Universal Emancipation, Feb. 1831, p. 162