Letter from Reuben Whitcomb, Jr, [Cambridge, Massachusetts], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1842 May 12

Reuben Whitcomb Jr. writes to Amos A. Phelps about availability of maintaining a Mission in the West Indies. He writes that "if Slavery in our land is so great an evil as it is thought to be, if the emancipated in the West Indies are left to group in darkness, and sink deeper in ignorance, and certainly no good influence will be affected to Great the Yoke here, but if they should be educated & instructed in the sciences, morals & religion, & thus devoted, the effect must be good, as it respects the great evil to be censored in our nation." He asks Phelps to put his name down on the call for a congregational conception.
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