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Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873 [Circular letter urging opposition to the expansion of slavery]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08998 Author/Creator: Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Printed document Date: February 1850 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 34 cm, Width: 21 cm Order a Copy

Circular letter from the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society urging opposition to the expansion of slavery. Addressed "To each Friend of Liberty in the United States." Urges readers to write to Congress in opposition to slavery, and demand slavery be barred from any new territiories. Encloses pettitions for the reader and acquantainces to sign. Signed in print by the "Executive Committee of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society," composed of Arthur Tappan, S.S. Jocelyn, William Jay, Lewis Tappan, William E. Whiting, Luther Lee, Christopher Rush, George Whipple, William Lillie, J. Warner, Charles B. Ray, Thomas Ritter, and Alexander Macdonald

Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
Tappan, Arthur, 1786-1865
Whiting, William, 1813-1873
Whipple, George, 1805-1876

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