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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Mrs. . B. Shaw . (search)
To Mrs. . B. Shaw. Medford, 1860.
You doubtless remember Thomas Sims, the fugitive slave, who was surrendered in Boston, in 1852.
I saw a letter from him to his sister expressing an intense longing for his freedom, and I swore by the Eternal, as General Jackson used to say, that as Massachusetts had sent him into slavery, Massachusetts should bring him back.
I resolved, also, that it should all be done with pro-slavery money.
They told me that I had undertaken to hoe a very hard row.
I laughed, and said, It shall be done: General Jackson never retracts.
I expected to have to write at least a hundred letters, and to have to station myself on the steps of the State House this winter, to besiege people.
Sims is a skilful mechanic and his master asks $1,800 for him. A large sum for an abolitionist to get out of pro-slavery purses!
But I got it!
I got it!
I got it!
Hurrah! I had written only eighteen letters, when one gentleman promised to pay the whole sum, provided I woul
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Terry 's Brigade , formerly John M. Jones 's. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Bloody Leaf in the history of this War--ten lives for one . (search)