BIB_ID
296694
Accession number
MA 1305.27
Creator
Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877.
Display Date
1868 Sept. 13.
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Acquired before 1949.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.5 cm
Notes
Part of the Jacob Heaton scrapbook, which contains over 100 entries, letters, photographs, engravings and ephemera related primarily to the abolitionist movement. Items of importance have been described in 45 individual catalog records (MA 1305.1-45); see collection record for more information.
Signed "Levi Coffin of Cincinnati Ohio" and dated "9th month 13th 1868."
Signed "Levi Coffin of Cincinnati Ohio" and dated "9th month 13th 1868."
Summary
Discussing the abolition of slavery and its aftermath, asking "are there, anywhere in the world, four millions of people so eager to learn, so anxious for Bible truth, and so near at hand for Christian labor, as the Freedmen? Fearful will be the consequences, if we neglect to occupy." Referencing the great industrial and political strain on the South.
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