Letter from Reuben Whitcomb, Jr, Harvard, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1842 May 12

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Title:
Letter from Reuben Whitcomb, Jr, Harvard, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1842 May 12
Description:
Reuben Whitcomb Jr. writes to Amos A. Phelps about availability of maintaining a Mission in the West Indies. He writes that "if Slavery in our land is so great an evil as it is thought to be, if the emancipated in the West Indies are left to group in darkness, and sink deeper in ignorance, and certainly no good influence will be affected to Great the Yoke here, but if they should be educated & instructed in the sciences, morals & religion, & thus devoted, the effect must be good, as it respects the great evil to be censored in our nation." He asks Phelps to put his name down on the call for a congregational conception.
Author:
Whitcomb, Reuben, Jr.
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
May 12, 1842
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Missions--West Indies
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Meetings
Christianity
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States
Missions
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Whitcomb, Reuben, Jr.
Extent:
1 leaf (2 p.) ; 33 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Harvard, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper.
Identifier:
5081552
Call #:
MS A.21 v.12, p.110
Barcode:
39999085424172