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". . TO SAVE OUR PAPER THE LIBERATOR WHICH IS UNDER GREAT EMBARASSMENT" WILLIAMS, HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, to Arthur Waring, appealing for funds to keep the "Liberator" from going out of business. 3 pages, 4to; some cracks at folds, last page with damage and missing notations (not part of letter), red seal removed with paper loss. New York, 29 June 1834
An impassioned letter appealing to the colored citizens of Washington to save the "Liberator" from financial ruin, "I am under the great necessity of appealing to you and the good coloured citizens of Washington in behalf of the Committee to assist us . . . to save our paper The Liberator which is under great embarrassment at this time." In a postscript he stresses that the crisis must not be made known to supporters of colonization, "The colonization friends would on the fourth day of July blow a trumpet and thunder it from one end of the union to the other." The "Liberator" solved its financial problems with help from many, most notably from James Forten, prominent colored businessman and abolitionist in Philadelphia. It was Forten who convinced Garrison that colonization was wrong while urging him to fight for the unconditional abolition of slavery.
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