The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: From Disunionism to the Brink of War, 1850-1860The fiery editor of the Liberator helped shape the destiny of a divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ring with denunciations of the Compromise of 1850 and the barbarous Fugitive Slave Act, a federal bill that not only sent runaway slaves hack to angry masters but threatened the liberty of all free blacks, Despite such provocation, Garrison was a proponent of nonresistance during this period, though he continued to advocate the emancipation of slaves. Garrison's writings also reflect the interests of his times. He engaged in lively correspondence with fellow countrymen Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore Parker, and Stephen S. Foster. In a long letter to Louis Kossuth, he challenges that Hungarian patriot's stand of opposing tyranny in Europe while ignoring slavery in America. Set against a background of wide-ranging travels throughout the western United States and of family affairs back home in Boston, Garrison's letters of this decade make a distinctive contribution to antebellum life and thought. |
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Contents
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To Samuel J May January 13 1850 | 12 |
To the Editor of the Boston Transcript May 17 1850 | 16 |
To Sydney Howard Gay June 21 1850 | 28 |
To Sydney Howard Gay July 2 1850 | 33 |
To James Brown Syme August 9 1850 | 34 |
To Samuel May Jr September 6 1850 | 38 |
To Samuel J May October 7 1850 | 40 |
the North July 8 1857 | 455 |
To Elizabeth Buffum Chace July 13 1857 | 458 |
To an Unknown Correspondent July 20 1857 | 459 |
To Wendell Phillips Garrison July 23 1857 | 462 |
To E F Burnham August 5 1857 | 463 |
To Francis Jackson Garrison August 8 1857 | 464 |
To the Editor of the Boston Transcript | 465 |
August 13 1857 | 469 |
To the Editor of the Times November 1 1850 | 43 |
To Francis Jackson December 31 1850 | 45 |
To Drs William Clark and Porter January 23 1851 | 47 |
To George Thompson Garrison February 18 1851 | 49 |
To Whom It May Concern March 4 1851 | 51 |
To Abby Kelley Foster March 25 1851 | 55 |
To George Thompson Garrison June 10 1851 | 61 |
To Samuel May Jr July 16 1851 | 66 |
To Abby Kelley Foster August 12 1851 | 67 |
To an Unnamed Correspondent August 23 1851 | 71 |
September 19 1851 | 73 |
To Sydney Howard Gay September 27 1851 | 85 |
To Adeline Roberts September 27 1851 | 86 |
1852 | 94 |
To Caroline C Thayer January 5 1852 | 97 |
To Benjamin Fish February 20 1852 | 199 |
To Samuel J May March 23 1852 | 201 |
To J Miller McKim July 18 1852 | 202 |
To Samuel May Jr July 19 1852 | 208 |
To Samuel May Jr August 27 1852 | 213 |
To Samuel J May September 16 1852 | 220 |
To D P Harmon October 16 1852 | 221 |
1853 | 224 |
To Lydia Maria Child January 20 1853 | 226 |
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson February 1 1853 | 227 |
To J Miller McKim March 19 1853 | 229 |
To Helen E Garrison April 18 1853 | 231 |
To Joseph A Dugdale May 19 1853 | 235 |
To Friends of the American AntiSlavery Society | 238 |
May 30 1853 | 241 |
To Wendell Phillips June 25 1853 | 245 |
To the Abolitionists of the United States | 246 |
August 29 1853 | 255 |
To Samuel J May September 23 1853 | 257 |
To Helen E Garrison September 5 1853 | 272 |
To Helen E Garrison October 8 1853 | 277 |
To Samuel J May November 22 1853 | 278 |
To Francis Jackson November 27 1853 | 279 |
To Harriet Beecher Stowe November 30 1853 | 280 |
1854 | 289 |
To Henry Wigham Jr January 1 1854 | 290 |
To Caroline C Thayer January 13 1854 | 291 |
To Helen E Garrison February 16 1854 | 294 |
To Charlotte Newell April 7 1854 | 296 |
To Sydney Howard Gay April 21 1854 | 297 |
To Robert Purvis April 21 1854 | 299 |
To an Unknown Correspondent April 21 1854 | 300 |
To Charles Sumner June 27 1854 | 302 |
To Caroline C Thayer August 6 1854 | 303 |
To Charlotte Newell August 19 1854 | 306 |
To Samuel J May September 1 1854 | 317 |
To Thomas Davis October 6 1854 | 319 |
To Francis Jackson October 9 1854 | 325 |
1855 | 327 |
To Edwin Barrows January 1 1855 | 328 |
To Oliver Johnson February 23 1855 | 329 |
To J M W Yerrinton March 22 1855 | 333 |
To Joshua B Smith March 23 1855 | 334 |
To James N Buffum May 18 1855 | 335 |
To Helen E Garrison June 15 1855 | 336 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr July 27 1858 | 339 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr June 19 1855 | 341 |
To Ellis Gray Loring August 13 1855 | 344 |
To E A Webb September 25 1855 | 346 |
To Francis Jackson October 11 1855 | 350 |
To Anne W Weston November 3 1855 | 355 |
To Dr Samuel G Howe and Others Committee | 359 |
November 12 1855 | 361 |
To Maria W Chapman November 24 1855 | 371 |
To Samuel Aaron December 7 1855 | 374 |
1856 | 375 |
To Graceanna Lewis January 4 1856 | 376 |
To Samuel J May January 27 1856 | 383 |
March 18 1856 | 385 |
To Samuel Aaron March 21 1856 | 388 |
To Samuel J May March 21 1856 | 392 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr June 1856 | 395 |
To Theodore Parker July 2 1856 | 397 |
To Ann R Bramhall August 8 1856 | 400 |
To Theodore Parker September 5 1856 | 403 |
To an Unknown Correspondent October 11 1856 | 412 |
To Elizabeth Buffum Chace November 7 1856 | 413 |
To Helen E Garrison December 17 1856 | 415 |
1857 | 419 |
To Theodore Tilton January 17 1857 | 420 |
To Lydia Maria Child February 6 1857 | 421 |
To Helen E Garrison February 8 1857 | 430 |
To John Hurt February 26 1857 | 444 |
To Several Friends June 18 1857 | 445 |
To Susan B Anthony June 19 1857 | 448 |
To M J Sheehy JuneJuly 1857 | 451 |
To the Antislavery Men and Women | 454 |
To Francis Jackson Garrison August 13 1857 | 474 |
To Fanny Garrison August 19 1857 | 476 |
To J M Hawks August 20 1857 | 477 |
September 8 1857 | 479 |
To Samuel May Jr September 10 1857 | 484 |
To John Needles September 22 1857 | 485 |
To Wendell Phillips Garrison October 2 1857 | 486 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr October 2 1857 | 487 |
To Theodore Parker October 3 1857 | 488 |
To Wendell Phillips October 18 1857 | 491 |
October 20 1857 | 493 |
To a Friend in New Bedford November 1 1857 | 498 |
To Theodore Parker November 8 1857 | 499 |
To Samuel May Jr September 17 1853 | 500 |
1858 | 501 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr January 7 1858 | 502 |
To Samuel J May January 8 1858 | 505 |
To Nathan R Johnston January 25 1858 | 507 |
To an Unknown Correspondent February 6 1858 | 510 |
To Susan B Anthony February 9 1858 | 512 |
To Samuel J May March 6 1858 | 516 |
To Susan B Anthony April 14 1858 | 518 |
To Adeline Roberts April 14 1858 | 521 |
To Oliver Johnson May 1 1858 | 530 |
To Francis Jackson May 25 1858 | 532 |
To the Sixth Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends May 28 1858 | 533 |
To Theodore Parker June 3 1858 | 535 |
To Samuel May Jr July 20 1858 | 539 |
To Samuel May Jr August 11 1858 | 543 |
To Wendell Phillips Garrison August 20 1858 | 547 |
To Stephen S and Abby K Foster September 7 1858 | 551 |
To J Miller McKim September 11 1858 | 554 |
To Helen E Garrison October 6 1858 | 556 |
To Samuel J May October 9 1858 | 559 |
To Helen E Garrison October 13 1858 | 563 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr October 15 1858 | 565 |
To The Liberator October 15 1858 | 576 |
To Oliver Johnson October 26 1858 | 590 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr October 28 1858 | 591 |
To Helen E Garrison October 28 1858 | 595 |
To Theodore Bourne November 18 1858 | 597 |
To Oliver Johnson November 18 1858 | 600 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr December 31 1858 | 601 |
1859 | 603 |
To Francis Jackson January 2 1859 | 604 |
To Elias Richards January 11 1859 | 606 |
To Theodore Parker January 15 1859 | 609 |
To Several American Friends of George Thompson | 610 |
February 15 1859 | 611 |
To Maria W Chapman February 18 1859 | 612 |
To Susan B Anthony February 21 1859 | 613 |
To James Freeman Clarke March 5 1859 | 614 |
To John W Hutchinson March 15 1859 | 616 |
To Oliver Johnson April 16 1859 | 621 |
To James Monroe April 22 1859 | 622 |
To Helen E Garrison May 12 1859 | 623 |
To C F Geist May 23 1859 | 627 |
To G Lyman Dwight June 12 1859 | 631 |
To Mr and Mrs John Jay June 21 1859 | 632 |
To Henry C Wright June 27 1859 | 634 |
To Aaron Cooley July 12 1859 | 637 |
To Wendell Phillips Garrison July 18 1859 | 638 |
To Abby Kelley Foster July 22 1859 | 642 |
To Wendell Phillips Garrison August 23 1859 | 647 |
To Abby Kelley Foster September 8 1859 | 649 |
To Samuel J May September 19 1859 | 656 |
To Elizabeth Buffum Chace October 17 1859 | 657 |
To Henry C Wright October 19 1859 | 659 |
To Oliver Johnson November 1 1859 | 660 |
To William H Furness December 17 1859 | 663 |
To an Unknown Correspondent December 18 1859 | 664 |
1860 | 666 |
To Elizabeth Pease Nichol February 22 1860 | 668 |
To Wendell Phillips Garrison March 21 1860 | 671 |
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson April 6 1860 | 672 |
To Henry I Bowditch June 18 1860 | 674 |
To Charles Sumner July 16 1860 | 676 |
To Ezra Hervey Heywood July 30 1860 | 677 |
To George W Stacy July 31 1860 | 679 |
To William Lloyd Garrison Jr August 1 1860 | 683 |
To Oliver Johnson August 9 1860 | 685 |
To Wendell Phillips Garrison August 9 1860 | 687 |
To J Miller McKim September 1 1860 | 691 |
To the Publishers of the World September 18 1860 | 692 |
To Samuel J May September 28 1860 | 693 |
To Nathan R Johnston October 15 1860 | 696 |
To J Miller McKim October 21 1860 | 699 |
To James Redpath December 1 1860 | 702 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: From Disunionism to the Brink of War, 1850-1860 Volume 4 of The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison |
| Author | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Editors | Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1976 |
| ISBN | 0674526635, 9780674526631 |
| Length | 776 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / United States / General Literary Collections / Letters |
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