Letter from Yardley Warner, Jeff[erson] Co[unty], Tenn., to William Lloyd Garrison, [October] / 31 1871

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Title:
Letter from Yardley Warner, Jeff[erson] Co[unty], Tenn., to William Lloyd Garrison, [October] / 31 1871
Description:
Yardley Warner recounts his introduction to the "Emancipation movement" as a boy, and confides to Garrison that his "first real prayer" was delivered for the "poor slave". Warner remembers how, in those days, the "pioneer Truth Dealers" were Benjamin Lundy and Garrison himself, and recollects how Lundy and Garrison used to visit his uncle Joseph in Bristol, Conneticut. Warner states his "intense interest" in revisiting the "early history of this great moral and civil reform", and inquiries when and why Lundy went to Baltimore, and the specifics of he and Garrison's working partnership with the Genius of Universal Emancipation. Warner additionally inquiries of the origins of the Liberator. Warner closes by inquiring the origins of the famous anti-slavery image of a kneeling slave captioned "Am I not a man and a brother?", and expresses his wish to "by any means" secure the original image, or a first edition of the picture.
Author:
Warner, Yardley, 1815-1885
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[October 31, 1871]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Warner, Yardley, 1815-1885
Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 12.7 x 20.4 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900q2190
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Place of origin:
Jeff[erson] Co[unty], Tenn.
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript addressed from Hayworth School, Jeff Co Tenn"
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4665011
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.37, p.15B
Barcode:
39999063804007