Letter from J. M. Blakesley, Spencertown, Columbia, N. Y., to Amos Augustus Phelps, Apr 11th 1838

J. M. Blakesley writes to Amos A. Phelps about his efforts to form a county antislavery society. He talks about a recent mob activity in Chatam, N. Y. and says a more formidable one is expected to come. Answering Phelps’s inquiry about Dr. Wayland and the efforts to suppress abolition in Brown University, Blakesley reports a few facts.

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