Letter from Lewis Tappan, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1840 May 25
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Lewis Tappan accepts the invitation to the anniversary meeting of the Massachusetts Abolition Society, and expresses his personal feelings about the current state of the antislavery movements. He talks about Mr. Burton’s “African slave trade and its remedy,” and the National Anti-Slavery Standard to be published by the American Anti-Slavery Society.