Garrison acknowledges that the letter was written to Lewis Tappan, who has given permission for its use in the paper. Here are some excerpts: “Dear Brother, You have seen by…
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Lane Seminary Important Anti-Slavery Document Full exposure of the gagging system Statement of the reasons which have induced the students of Lane Seminary to dissolve their connection with that institution.…
Here is an item claiming that there are now sixty-one students who are abolitionists. They are excluding slaveholders from communion, refusing donations from them for missionary purposes.
August 25, 1843 A letter from Wm. T. Allen, Peoria, Illinois. He is a slaveholder’s son, who first saw the paper at Lane Seminary, and was initially angry, but has…