A LETTER TO THE HON. HARRISON GRAY OTIS, PELEG SPRAGUE, AND RICHARD FLETCHER, ESQ.

Boston: James Munroe, 1836. 12mo, Disbound and a bit loosened. 35pp. Good+ to Very Good. The author, writing in the year after a Boston mob nearly killed William Lloyd Garrison, attacks Massachusetts men who argue that slavery is "but a necessary adjunct, or condition of unmixed republicanism." Bradford reviews the history of the abolition movement in America from its founding in Philadelphia, with the support of Benjamin Franklin, and explains that those who advocate "the duty of silence" are making a big mistake. FIRST EDITION. AI 36339 [5]. Sabin 7248. Not in Dumond, Blockson, Work, LCP. Item #10549

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