Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 to Elizur Wright
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04372.01 Author/Creator: Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Letter signed Date: 7 November 1836 Pagination: 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20.6 cm Order a Copy
Lundy writes to Wright, a fellow abolitionist. Lundy is on a committee organizing a convention held to establish a state anti-slavery society. The convention will meet at Harrisburg 19 December, and Lundy solicits Wright's participation. Signed by other members of the committee: William H. [Scott?], Isaac Parrish, Lewis C. Gunn, and Benjamin S. Jones. Written on the Anti-Slavery Society's stationary bearing an engraving by Patrick Reason. The image depicts a bonded slave woman kneeling and the text "Engraved by P. Reason: A Colored Young Man of the City of New York 1835." The image is again repeated on the wax seal.
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